From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T09:01:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#member? Oddity

On Jan 13, 2006, at 5:54 PM, David Vallner wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:17:26 +0100, James Edward Gray II  
> <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 5:04 PM, David Vallner wrote:
>>
>>> No, those methods work perfectly. The behaviour of String is the  
>>> problem here.
>>
>> ???  How exactly is it that you believe String should behave?
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>
>
> Well, to work well in Ranges, for any String s, s.succ > s must  
> hold true.

I'm pretty sure we don't want to change the meaning of String  
comparisons at this point.  succ() just doesn't happened to be  
defined under those terms, because then it would be a lot less useful  
to us.  It's hard for me to see any of that as "broken".

James Edward Gray II