From: Jim Deville <jdeville@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T07:56:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23028] Re: [Bug #1317] Creating a range with strings


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Selig [mailto:redmine@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:34 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: [ruby-core:23027] [Bug #1317] Creating a range with strings
>
> Issue #1317 has been updated by Michael Selig.
>
>
> This is a (possibly confusing) consequence of the behaviour of
> String#next.
> For most sortable objects, the following is true:
>
> obj.next > obj
>
> but not for strings. For example:
>
> "9".next => "10"
> but
> "10" > "9" => false

Why doesn't Ruby have a collation concept to allow this to be changed?

JD