From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-04-26T16:59:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02580] Re: String.succ

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02579] Re: String.succ"
    on 00/04/26, schneik@us.ibm.com <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|#   "".succ == ""

|Maybe I missed something, but for simplicity, consistency,
|least surprise, ease of remembering, why not:
|
|    "".succ == "\000"

You don't miss anything.  I doubt there can be global consensus for
"".succ.  "\001" is second to "" if I have to choose.

							matz.