From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-04-14T17:31:51+09:00
Subject: Re: unable to do "down" range?

W dniu 14 kwietnia 2012 02:32 użytkownik Ralph Shnelvar
<ralphs@dos32.com> napisał:
> Bartosz,
>
> Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:55:46 PM, you wrote:
>
> BD> Now what should string[1..-2] do in your version? And would the end
> BD> result with at least 3 different behaviors for ranges make any sense?
>
> I'm not sure what string[1..2] is supposed to do.  What do you mean it to do?

string[1..-2], with a minus. It currently returns first to
second-to-last letters of the string. As in:

irb(main):001:0> string = 'abcdefg'
=> "abcdefg"
irb(main):002:0> string[1..-2]
=> "bcdef"


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