Re: Negative indexes in ${arr[@]:off:length}

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 29.06.2011 18:31, Maarten Billemont wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2011, at 14:05, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> > On 29.06.2011 13:42, Maarten Billemont wrote:
> > > On 27 Jun 2011, at 16:25, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > >
> > [...]
> > > Exactly, let's draw the array in the example:
> > >
> > > arr=(a b c)
> > > values:  [ a | b | c ]
> > > indexes: 0   1   2   3
> > [...]
> >
> > 4 members?
> 3 members.  The index cursor precedes its member, as is commonly done when 
> depicting arrays.
>
> Apologies for mentioning the index 3 and somehow confusing you.

It wasn't me being confused.

> Note that I prefixed the line with the word "indexes", not "values".

Yes, and that's 3 indexes and values there not 4.

> I think we all know value a has the index 0 and value c has the index 2.

All who know, do know - but who knows, who doesn't know? :-)