How do I take a slice of a list (A sublist) in scheme?

Question

Given a list, how would I select a new list, containing a slice of the original list (Given offset and number of elements) ?

EDIT:

Good suggestions so far. I

Answer 1

Try something like this:

    (define (slice l offset length)
      (if (null? l)
        l
        (if (> offset 0)
            (slice (cdr l) (- offset 1) length)
            (if (> length 0)
                (cons (car l) (slice (cdr l) 0 (- length 1)))
                '()))))