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Author pitrou
Recipients akira, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date 2014-03-24.19:50:15
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Well, it is a sequence, it's just that it doesn't respect the convention about negative indices :-)

As to why they are disallowed, I don't remember exactly (!) but I think it's because the exact semantics would be confusing otherwise.
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