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Should sequences support negative indices? #4

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The Python language specification states:

The formal syntax makes no special provision for negative indices in sequences; however, built-in sequences all provide a getitem() method that interprets negative indices by adding the length of the sequence to the index (so that x[-1] selects the last item of x).

Should we support this for sequence types in the library that support index access?

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