From: Robert Retzbach <rretzbach@...>
Date: 2006-01-15T03:55:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#member? Oddity

James Edward Gray II schrieb:

> 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 don't know why to_a is working here.
I know that a range from '1' to '10' could be like you described, but it 
doesn't make a logical sense I think.
like ('a'..'ah') what should that be?
[a-255.chr] and all a[0.chr-255.chr]?

This is what I think, of course.
Dunno if it makes sense :>

MfG
Retze