From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T01:05:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] string range membership

mental@rydia.net wrote:
> Quoting Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>:
> 
> 
>>In message "Re: [BUG] string range membership"
>>    on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:16:49 +0900, "Warren Brown"
> 
> <warrenbrown@aquire.com> writes:
> 
>>|Several names come to mind for the new method: #between?
>>|(my personal favorite), #betwixt? (kind of silly, but could
>>|be fun), #cover?, #surround?, #bound?, #inside?, #within?,
>>|#in_range?, #in_interval?, #in?
>>
>>Thank you for the candidates.  I'd like to hear opinion from
>>others (especially from English speakers).
> 
> 
> #within? seems best to me.
> 
> -mental

I like #bound?, as in

(lower..upper).bound? x

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