Would be nice to have shorter, more pythonic array sliciing syntax.

[mardukbp]

Breeze's a(1 until 5) is more verbose than Numpy's a[1:5]. The same happens with many other indexing and slicing operations. Would you consider implementing Python-like syntactic sugar, maybe using Scala macros?

In several places I have read that syntactic sugar for indexing and slicing of arrays and lists is one of the reasons for the large-scale adoption of Python for data analysis. Thanks to Breeze and other projects, the JVM ecosystem now has the potential to become a solid alternative to Python in this field. Retaining the notation that has been used for decades in Fortran, Matlab and Python would make the transition easier for many people.

[dlwh]

can you suggest a syntax? actual python indexing isn't valid scala. I agree it's not ideal, but I'm not sure what to do