From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-12-03T07:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Range oddity

Hi --

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Adam Shelly wrote:

> Why can I create a Range where one end is a String and the other is an
> Array?  I can't do anything with it.   I get an error if I create an
> Fixnum..Array range, why don't I get one for the String..Array?

That seems to be fixed in 1.8.3:
   $ ruby -ve 'a = "1"..["10"]'
   ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
   -e:1: bad value for range (ArgumentError)


David

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