From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-11-12T06:45:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#slice oddity...

Matthew Berg wrote:
> It appears that if you use slice or slice! with a length argument, it
> returns an array even if the index is out of range:
> 
>   irb(main):001:0> a = []
>   => []
>   irb(main):002:0> b = a.slice(0)
>   => nil
>   irb(main):003:0> b = a.slice(0,1)
>   => []

Shouldn't a[0] and a[0,1][0] return the same value?