gethead
| gethead | 
  Purpose
 
  Synopsis
 
function gethead(l:list, o:integer):list
 
  Arguments
 
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     l 
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     A list
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     o 
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     Number of elements to copy if >0 or number of elements to ignore if <0
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  Return value
 
 A (partial) copy of the list.
  Example
 
L:=[1,2,3,4,5] L2:=gethead(L,2) ! => L2=[1,2] L2:=gethead(L,-1) ! => L2=[1,2,3,4]
  Further information
 
  This function does not alter its input list. If the second parameter is 0 an empty list is returned. If the same parameter is larger than the size of the list the function returns a copy of the original list.
 
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