From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-01-14T09:53:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#member? Oddity


On Jan 13, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> This seems to me to make the problem worse. People expect the  
> values generated by String#succ to be in the array when doing a  
> to_a for instance. I believe the real solution would be to bring  
> back the distinction between member and include (possibly with a  
> new name for the method with the functionality of #member).

It seems strange to want Range to behave like an interval and to
also want Range#to_a to create a list of elements that don't all
belong in that same interval.

I understand the desire to generate a sequence of strings
as defined by the current behavior of String#succ but I don't understand
why you would want to use a Range object as a shortcut to that sequence.
That particular sequence really has nothing to do with an interval
or the ordering defined by String#<=>


Gary Wright