From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-01-02T18:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR allow indexing last n items

On 02/01/2008, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
> > On 01/01/2008, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> What I mean is: if str[-10] is nil, then I'm not sure about there
> >> being any x, such that str[-10..x] is a string.
> >
> > If str[9] returns nil, why does not str[0...10] return nil then? Isn't
> > it the same argument?
>
> Not if the rule is that the beginning of the range has to be an
> (existing) index into the string. That's really the crux of it, I
> think.

And this whole discussion is about changing the rule to a more
sensible one. So that does not apply as an argument here :P

Thanks

Michal