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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 07:38:21 +0800
From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: zsh-user <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: (r) flag on scalar
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I think below command line should give result "bc", but:

localhost% s=abcdefg
localhost% print $s[(r)bc]
b
localhost%

Looks like this isn't intuitional.