On 08.02.2010 20:55, Seebs wrote:
> It makes more sense to me that
> "foo"[1] == "o" than that "foo"[1] = 111.  It is a little surprising if I
> think of it from a C perspective, which is certainly my native perspective,
> but overall it's a cleaner answer and more consistent with string handling.
> In particular, it's cleaner because it's consistent with slices of more than
> one character.:)
>    
By that logic array[index] should return a single-element array
instead of the element itself to be more consistent with array
slicing.