From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T06:07:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#member? Oddity

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not understanding what I am seeing here.  Can anyone please   
>>> explain why the last line of this session gives *false* as an answer?
>>>  >> range = ("1".."10")
>>> => "1".."10"
>>>  >> range.to_a
>>> => ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"]
>>>  >> range.member?("1")
>>> => true
>>>  >> range.member?("2")
>>> => false
>>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>>
>> I cannot duplicate this with 1.8.2 or 1.8.4.
> 
> 
> Odd.  I'm using 1.8.4:
> 
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
> 
> James Edward Gray II
> 

Whoops, I misspoke.  I was using numbers, not strings.  I do, in fact, get the 
same behavior in 1.8.4 (and 1.8.2).

/me guesses randomly that it has something to do with stringified numbers in 
particular.

Regards,

Dan