From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-09T22:52:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6963] Re: Accessing an non-existing segment of an array

raja@cs.indiana.edu (Raja S.) writes:

> My personal experience has been that when I ask for a segment of an
> array my intention is: "give me as much as you've got and truncate
> the rest".  Of course, if that portion itself had nils in it then it
> is my responsibility to be able to handle them.
> 
>      0 1 2 3 4
> a = [2,3,5,7,11]
> 
> b = a[3..10]  #-> [7,11]

I guess my confusion comes from the intent of the code: why would you
ever _ask_ for elements outside the bounds of the array?


Dave