Yes, I was the one who made the comment about Go's lack of a -1 for slices in the first place. ;) I was actually referencing the 0 part and thus saying Go does

Yes, I was the one who made the comment about Go's lack of a -1 for slices in the first place. ;) I was actually referencing the 0 part and thus saying Go does already have some syntactic sugar when dealing with slices. ie you can do: slice[5:] // slice[:len(slice)] but not slice[5:-1] // slice[:len(slice)-1] Which is a great pity. However I'll update my previous comment to make that clearer because I can totally understand how it reads confusingly.