If a Field API field has a cardinality larger than 1, Views provides you a way to specify how many deltas should be displayed, and from what offset.
There are also options for reversing the deltas, as well as showing only the first and last.
This is really something that Drupal core should know how to do (or to be more precise, the field formatter).
That would allow us to remove that code from Views, as well as stop reinventing it across contrib (for example, here).
This should probably be postponed on converting the widgets and formatters to plugins, though.
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tim.plunkettComment #2
swentel CreditAttribution: swentel commentedRelated issue at #1234624: Limit the number of fields to display - only started with limit only, but range/reverse should be possible as well
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xjmComment #4
swentel CreditAttribution: swentel commentedhmm, one of the two can be marked duplicate, I vote the other one as that already has a patch (given, maybe not how it should look like, but the idea is there)
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xjmRe-scoping and postponing on #1234624: Limit the number of fields to display.