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special case for accessing the first out-of-range element in an array
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ruby-array-slicing-weirdness.rb
array = ['foo']
# slicing
p array[0,1] #=> ["foo"]
p array[1,1] #=> [] - SURPRISE!?
p array[2,1] #=> nil
# accessing
# no surprises
p array[0] #=> "foo"
p array[1] #=> nil
p array[2] #=> nil
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