From: Stephen Waits <steve@...>
Date: 2006-03-18T15:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Card tricks with Ruby

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> I'm not sure what it is about the range operators that bothers you.
> Are you finding it hard to remember which is which?  My way of
> remembering is: every range is the same width, in relation to the
> operators.  Since the ... operator is wider, the end-point gets pushed
> outside the range:

That you had to invent that mnemonic device just to remember what they 
is what I don't like about them.  That they differ by a single '.' is 
error-prone.  It just one of the few things I've run across in Ruby that 
doesn't feel like the rest of Ruby (very straightforward, POLS, etc.).

I don't want to start a whole thing, though, which is why I inquired as 
to whether Matz has discussed this publicly in the past.

Thanks,
Steve