From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-05-10T15:10:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 09.05.2009 02:19, Gary Yngve wrote:
>> On May 8, 4:47 pm, Eleanor McHugh <elea...@games-with-brains.com>
>> wrote:
>>> "foo"[3..3]                   => ""
>> ..
>>> index [3] is actually the end of the string so whilst the range  
>>> accesses the string after any characters in it, it's still accessing  
>>> the string in a valid range.
>> 
>> Maybe in the native C.  But why should that be exposed?
>> And why shouldn't index[3] return "" if you are correct?
> 
> If we change perspective a bit, the behavior seems pretty naturally to
> me: if you execute this:

It doesn't to me.  I'll throw in with the op: that is stupid behavior 
and whoever wrote the docs had no idea how the end of a string is 
handled in ruby.  Typical crappy ruby documentation.
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