From: Bob Sidebotham <bob@...>
Date: 2004-10-02T07:09:59+09:00
Subject: consider "..." as ellipsis (Re: Range syntax theory)

Zach Dennis wrote:

> How range operators work seems sort of backwards to me. It would appear 
> as if the "..." (three dots) would be the inclusive one, including the 
> last value and the ".." (two dots) would be exclusive and exclude the 
> last value.

If you think of "..." as ellipsis (an English language punctuation 
mark), then these definitions seem to match the Ruby interpretation:

http://www.yaelf.com/punctuation.shtml
Ellipsis: From the Greek for "to come short", originally used in geometry.

http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~tripp/punc.html
Ellipsis (...) is used to show that something has been omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
an ellipsis (plural: ellipses) is a row of three dots (�) or asterisks 
(* * *) indicating an intentional omission.

Bob Sidebotham