From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2000-04-26T04:05:41-04:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02581] Re: String.succ

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 02:43:49AM -0500, schneik@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Matz writes:
[...]
> # Ok, I define as following:
> #
> #   "".succ == ""
> #   "\377".succ == "\001\000"
> 
> Maybe I missed something, but for simplicity, consistency,
> least surprise, ease of remembering, why not:
> 
>     "".succ == "\000"

That should probably be

	"".succ == "\001"

given that the implicit assumption seems to be that the string is padded
with an infinite number of zeros to the left for purposes of finding the
successor.

				Reimer Behrends