From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-01-10T15:35:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8989] Ranges inside brackets for arrays

I'm just now getting around to asking this.

A few weeks ago I wrote something like
x[1..-1] where x is an array. It worked fine.

Only later did I think, "Wait a minute. A 
range can't go backwards..."

I don't recall seeing an example like this
documented.

Is the thing in the brackets "not really a
range" or what? What is going on here?

Hal Fulton