From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-04-15T01:36:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#slice's boundary special case...why?

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This comes up periodically.

You can see http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/1393096 which has quite a good
explanation (one which I'd like to see in the documentation).

There is also http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4541


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Shane Emmons <semmons99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone give me the background on why given the following:
>  arr = %w(0 1 2 3 4)
>
> Then arr[5,1] returns [] and arr[6,1] returns nil? I understand that the
> last element +1 is labeled a special case, but why?
>
> --
> Shane Emmons
>

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