Char[] confusing

[Stewart Gordon]

Qian Xu wrote:
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> IMO, it does not make any sense.
> s[start..end]
> 
>   end - is neither the count of characters in the array slice,
>            nor the end index of the slice.
>         it is just the index after the real end character.

It might help to think of the indexes in a slice as numbering the 
boundaries between the array elements, rather than the elements themselves.

Stewart.