From: Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@...>
Date: 2007-06-05T07:07:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Reverse-range alternatives?

fREW wrote:
> On 6/4/07, Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Since a reverse range (eg. 4...1) is functionally almost the same as an
>> empty range, is there an alternative in the standard library, where
>> .each would actually iterate over the elements from first to last, in
>> this case 4, 3, 2?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
> You could do 4.downto(2) { |i| ... }
Oh, of course. I'm still not entirely used to thinking of numbers as 
having a bunch of their own methods. Thanks!

Ken