From: Andy Cooper <acooper@...>
Date: 2009-01-08T02:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Puzzling behaviour with range...

> Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
> >
> > a) Range is not a numeric
> > b) Which difference do you mean?
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Sebastian
> 
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> Of course, in typing this out, I see why it's set up the way it is, 
> since we might want to do something like this...
> 
> class SomeObj
>         def lastOne()
>                 17
>         end
> end
> blah = SomeObj::new
> a = 1..blah.lastOne
> 
> Thanks for setting me on the path! (and letting me babble on...)


Well it all comes down to the principle of least surprise in the end,
and I think that it is properly set up to fit within the principle. Even
though none of us wants to put parenthesis ... anywere really.

Andy Cooper.