What is the correct behaviour of endIndex of array in Swift?

Question

The endIndex returns the same values as count. Is it a correct behaviour or a bug?

var ar = [1, 2, 3, 4] ar.count // 4 ar.endIndex // 4 

Answer 1

count is the number of items in the collection, whereas endIndex is the Index (from the Indexable protocol) which is just past the end of the collection.

For Array, these are the same. For some other collections, such as ArraySlice, they are not:

let array = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]  array.startIndex  // 0 array.count       // 5 array.endIndex    // 5  let slice = array[1..<4]  // elements are "b", "c", "d"  slice.startIndex  // 1 slice.count       // 3 slice.endIndex    // 4