Editing Array slicing (section)

==History==
The concept of slicing was surely known even before the invention of [[compiler]]s. Slicing as a language feature probably started with [[FORTRAN]] (1957), more as a consequence of non-existent type and range checking than by design. The concept was also alluded to in the preliminary report for the [[ALGOL 58|IAL]] (ALGOL 58) in that the syntax allowed one or more indices of an array element (or, for that matter, of a procedure call) to be omitted when used as an actual parameter.

[[Kenneth E. Iverson|Kenneth Iverson]]'s [[APL programming language|APL]] (1957) had very flexible multi-dimensional array slicing, which contributed much to the language's expressive power and popularity.

[[ALGOL 68]] (1968) introduced comprehensive multi-dimension array slicing and trimming features.

Array slicing facilities have been incorporated in several modern languages, such as [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]], [[Cobra (programming language)|Cobra]], [[D programming language|D]], [[Fortran|Fortran 90]], [[Go (programming language)|Go]], [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]], [[Julia_(programming language)|Julia]], [[MATLAB]], [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[S-Lang]], [[Windows PowerShell]] and the mathematical/statistical languages [[GNU Octave]], [[S (programming language)|S]] and [[R (programming language)|R]].