From: Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T14:29:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#member? Oddity

Hal Fulton wrote:
> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> => false
> In short: Don't do this.
> 
> String ranges are very weird. They don't obey the rule that
> x.succ > x.
> 
> Since "2" > "10", "2" is considered outside the range entirely.
> 
> If you really want to do this kind of thing, say
> ("1".."10").to_a.member?("2")
> 
> 
> Hal

If the two strings have the same length, the weirdness disappears.

Christer

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