From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-05-13T09:04:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Whaaaaat?

Kirk Haines wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> p [0..5].include? 0
>> false
>> p [0..5].member? 0
>> false
>>
>> This is nuts. The world is flat, evidently.
>>
>> Can someone explain this nonsense?
>>     
>
> [0..5] is an array with a single element, a Range object representing
> the range from 0 to 5.
>
> (0..5).to_a gives you [0,1,2,3,4,5] which is probably what you assumed
> you got with [0..5]
>
> (0..5).include?(0) will work, as well, because ranges support the
> include? method.
>
>
> Kirk Haines
>
>
>   
Thanks, Kirk. That's the best answer yet. Very helpful.

t.

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