Rails - Sep 2012 - :index => nil

On here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-check_box-label-Gotcha

you see this code:

<%= fields_for "project[invoice_attributes][]", invoice, :index
=> nil
do |form| %>
  <%= form.check_box :paid %>
  ...
<% end %>


why are they using :index => nil in the example? I mean I know that
what it does is ensure that the invoice objects do not get passed an
index number so that you have this: project[invoice_attributes][]
rather than this: project[invoice_attributes][1]. But why in the above
example, do they want to achieve this? It seems as though invoice is
an existing object and therefore is not a new record.

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