From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2009-08-03T17:38:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in Array#[]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Bertram Scharpf<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, 03. Aug 2009, 09:11:11 +0900 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
>> Am Montag, 03. Aug 2009, 05:50:10 +0900 schrieb Wojciech Piekutowski:
>> >   a = [1,2,3,4,5]
>> >
>> I would even prefer a behaviour like this:
>>
>>   a[3,-3]    #=> [4,3,2]
>>
>> This would be the least surprise to me.
>
> Sorry! The least surprise of course would be
>
>  a[3,-3]    #=> [3,2,1]
>
> Bertram
>
>
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>
>

Really?

a = [1,2,3,4,5]
p a[3,2] #=> [4, 5]

#p a[3,-3] #=> [4,3,2]
#a[start,length]

This seems least surprising to me.


Harry

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