Remove String.slice. Too much overlap with String.substring.

sdk/lib/core/string.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 part of dart.core;
 
 /**
  * The String class represents sequences of characters. Strings are
  * immutable. A string is represented by a sequence of Unicode UTF-16
  * code units accessible through the [codeUnitAt] or the
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    * Creates a new string by concatenating this string with [other].
    *
    * A sequence of strings can be concatenated by using [Iterable.join]:
    *
    *     var strings = ['foo', 'bar', 'geez'];
    *     var concatenated = strings.join();
    */
   String operator +(String other);
 
   /**
-   * Returns a slice of this string from [startIndex] to [endIndex].
-   *
-   * If [startIndex] is omitted, it defaults to the start of the string.
-   *
-   * If [endIndex] is omitted, it defaults to the end of the string.
-   *
-   * If either index is negative, it's taken as a negative index from the
-   * end of the string. Their effective value is computed by adding the
-   * negative value to the [length] of the string.
-   *
-   * The effective indices, after  must be non-negative, no greater than the
-   * length of the string, and [endIndex] must not be less than [startIndex].
-   */
-  String slice([int startIndex, int endIndex]);
-
-  /**
    * Returns a substring of this string in the given range.
    * [startIndex] is inclusive and [endIndex] is exclusive.
    */
   String substring(int startIndex, [int endIndex]);
 
   /**
    * Removes leading and trailing whitespace from a string. If the string
    * contains leading or trailing whitespace a new string with no leading and
    * no trailing whitespace is returned. Otherwise, the string itself is
    * returned.  Whitespace is defined as every Unicode character in the Zs, Zl
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         _position = position - 1;
         _currentCodePoint = _combineSurrogatePair(prevCodeUnit, codeUnit);
         return true;
       }
     }
     _position = position;
     _currentCodePoint = codeUnit;
     return true;
   }
 }