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Bug #6203

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Array#values_at does not handle ranges with end index past the end of the array

Added by ferrous26 (Mark Rada) about 12 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
ruby -v:
trunk
Backport:
[ruby-core:43678]

Description

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When I use Array#values_at I expect that it would be the same as successive calls to (({Array#[]})).

There is one case where this does not hold:

a = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
a[4..6] # => [4, 5]
a.values_at(4..6) # => [4,5,nil]

I think this is an inconsistency in the design of (({Array#values_at})). We can look at a more extreme case:

a[4..100] # => [4, 5]
a.values_at 4..100 # => [4, 5, nil]

And now it doesn't make any sense.

I think the best solution would be to make (({Array#values_at})) be equivalent to successive calls to (({Array#[]})). I have patched (({rb_range_beg_len()})) to handle the extra case and opened a pull request on github.
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