Re: fn:slice()

> On 3 Dec 2020, at 15:46, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Did you consider other verbs(nouns?) other than slice?
> 
> Based on these examples, I would be comfortable with the name extract() .
> 

It's a generalization of the slice function found in C++, Javascript, Python, Scala, and R. (and familiar to me personally from Algol-68)

Is there a language that has such a function and names it extract()?

Michael Kay
Saxonica