From: Jason Foreman <threeve.org@...>
Date: 2005-07-22T12:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd Array#[x..y] return values

On 7/21/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Ruby 1.8.2
> >
> > Consider:
> >
> > irb(main):001:0> a = []
> > => []
> > irb(main):002:0> a[0..1]
> > => []
> 
>    start at a legitimate index and continue with every possible index until the
>    end, not matter where that is
> 

Then why this?:

irb(main):001:0> [][0]
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> [][0..1]
=> []
irb(main):003:0> [][1..1]
=> nil

0 is not a legitimate index on an empty array.  Seems like a bug to me.