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Ruby Array slice shortcut

Today I learned that Ruby has an alias for Array slice method, basically you can use the [] the same way you'd use the slice method:

array = [ "a", "b", "c", "d", "e" ]

array[3..5]
# => ["d", "e"]

array.slice(3..5)
# => ["d", "e"]
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