From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-11-11T09:28:29+09:00
Subject: Re: array.each restart when array is changed

Kevin B�rgens wrote:
> Second question:
> why is this not allowed

Because 'a' does not automagically cast to Fixnum.
You have to do 'a'[0] to do that and .chr to get back the
character.

> #show me the first n letters of the alphabet
> ('a'...'a'+gets.to_i).each{|e| puts e }

Try this:

('a'[0]...'a'[0]+gets.to_i).each{|e| puts e.chr}

> How to do it the right way?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>  Kevin