From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T21:13:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18954] Re: newbie autovivification

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Nat Pryce wrote:

> > > Please add this cool Python stuff to Ruby.
> > >
> > > If 25 < foo < 75 : print "middle"
> >
> > This would be nice, but it requires hacking the parser, which (as far as
> > I understand) is already a complex beast. At least "25 < x < 75" raises an
> > exception in Ruby. It doesn't silently give the wrong answer (as in C).
> 
> And you can use a range:
> 
> print "middle" if 25..75 === foo
> 
> 
I wrote about this a while ago.  See:

http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/comparisons.html

> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk