From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T00:05:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] string range membership

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Warren Brown wrote:

> Brian,
>
>> I'd argue that it is not a bug, as there is no unique
>> isomorphie from strings to integers.
>
>    I have to disagree.
>
>> ruby -v -e "p(('1'..'10').to_a)"
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
> ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"]
>
>    This shows a clear and unique mapping of the range '1'..'10' into a
> set of strings.

but where do '01', '001', and '0001' go?  they too, are in the set of strings.

regards.

-a
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