# Why isn't there a non-! version of deleteat!()?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-isnt-there-a-non-version-of-deleteat/123355
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**Created:** [December 2, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-isnt-there-a-non-version-of-deleteat/123355 "2024-12-02T12:50:17Z")
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> [@francisbarton](#):
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> but I don’t think Julia supports negative indices like this?

There are packages that will do this, e.g. see InvertedIndices.jl or the `@delete` macro from Accessors.jl.

See also previous discussions:

- [Equivalent of np.delete?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-np-delete/122642)
- [Elegant way of exclusive indexing](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/elegant-way-of-exclusive-indexing/76894)
- [Matrix indexing](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/matrix-indexing/70057)
- [Accessing every elements of an array except a certain range](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-every-elements-of-an-array-except-a-certain-range/55173)

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