Array slicing in Ruby: explanation for illogical behaviour (taken from Rubykoans.com)

Question

I was going through the exercises in Ruby Koans and I was struck by the following Ruby quirk that I found really unexplainable:

array = [:peanut, :butter, :a         


        

Answer 1

This does make sense

You need to be able to assign to those slices, so they are defined in such a way that the beginning and the end of the string have working zero-length expressions.

array[4, 0] = :sandwich
array[0, 0] = :crunchy
=> [:crunchy, :peanut, :butter, :and, :jelly, :sandwich]