From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-01T11:59:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] string range membership

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:

> Dave Howell wrote:
>> 
>> Good! The fact that Ruby will get incredibly clever with strings and
>> fabricate arbitrary sequences with them is a charming trick, but they are
>> arbitrary, and it is a trick.
>> 
>
> That sums it up well. I couldn't have said it better. Well, maybe if I
> really tried...

otoh - __everything__ computers do can be summarized as extremely clever
tricks with strings.  maybe better said as infinitely long tapes, but strings
nonetheless.

regards.

-a
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