From: Francis Burton <fburton@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T04:13:54+09:00
Subject: Re: (1..5) === 3 > true 3 === (1..5) > false

Giles Bowkett wrote:
> The whole point of Ruby is that if you don't want things to happen the
> way they happen, you can rewrite large portions of the language -
> including this piece - with very little effort. So not only is it
> pointless to tell people what the language should do, but also, if you
> really want the language to do that, you can **make** it do that with
> hardly any effort at all.

Is there a construct like this in Ruby?

if x in (1..5)

This seems a lot more intuitive and easier to read than "(1..5) === x",
so is it possible to modify the language to make it do that?

Francis
(Ruby nuby)
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