Yeah it's pretty weird. Was trying to think of something that would need this exact behavior, assuming it's legit...maybe parsing some piece of text where you expect a fourth part only if the third was parsed successfully and you don't care about the outcome of the previous two ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scenarios like this scare the bejubus outta me, it's like a business logic landmine waiting for a refactor tractor to drive over