From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-08-06T04:11:07+09:00
Subject: Re: algorithm help


Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
> > Btw, here's another funny idea:
> > [snip code]
>
> not bad (and *so* short), but failing for descending ranges [...]
>


Descending ranges don't have much method support in Ruby, though.

rg = (43..41)

p rg.include?(42) #-> false
p rg.max          #-> nil
p rg.to_a         #-> []

.... and others.

daz