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Support for index-based arrays slicing

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the Jinja2 index operator implementation and any existing array-access tests. Compare the current behavior with Python slice notation, including the supported forms and edge cases described in the issue. Done means index-based array slicing is supported and covered by tests.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

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Jinja2 index operator [] follows the python arrays slicing semantic: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/509211/understanding-slice-notation

It needs to be supported.

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C++
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