[LRUG] Array.slice question

[Michael Pavling]

On 7 September 2011 09:33, Neil Middleton <neil.middleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're asking for no length with [3,0] hence it slicing at position 3 for 0
> chars.  With the second version you're using an out of range start position
> hence the nil.

But if x[3] is nil (because it's out of range), how come starting the
slice at 3 doesn't count as out of range too?:-/