# HG changeset patch
# User Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
# Date 1350084497 14400
# Node ID e3bb00c0db497432446d7c33a549024b3bee3a9e
# Parent  255d5232b0f6b73cdf950687e34437717df37392
Tweak wording.

diff -r 255d5232b0f6 -r e3bb00c0db49 chapters/35.markdown
--- a/chapters/35.markdown	Fri Oct 12 19:25:40 2012 -0400
+++ b/chapters/35.markdown	Fri Oct 12 19:28:17 2012 -0400
@@ -76,12 +76,14 @@
     :::vim
     :echo "abcd"[0:2]
 
-Vim displays "abc". It does not allow you to use negative indices with strings though:
+Vim displays "abc". However, you can't use negative bare indices with strings.
+You *can* use negative indices when slicing strings though!  Run the following
+command:
 
     :::vim
-    :echo "abcd"[-1] "abcd"[-1:]
+    :echo "abcd"[-1] . "abcd"[-2:]
 
-will echo " d".
+Vim displays "cd" (using a negative index silently resulted in an empty string).
 
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