From: Alex <imphasing@...>
Date: 2009-06-03T04:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: <, >, and ranges in a case statement.

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That's an interesting idea.. I can see an opportunity for a great deal of
abuse there, as well.
It would certainly be cool to write my infinite loops like:

(0..Infinity).each {|d| ... }


Alex

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Thomas <mark@thomaszone.com> wrote:

> On Jun 2, 9:32 am, Max Williams <toastkid.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Clifford Heath wrote:
> > > Brian Candler wrote:
> > >> Simplest solution is to use a Range with extreme bounds,
> >
> > > ... such as a range that ends in Infinity:
> >
> > > 65..(1/0.0)
> > > => 65..Infinity
>
> Interesting... you can assign it to a constant.
>
> Infinity = 1/0.0
>
> Then you can use it in ranges:
>
> (-Infinity..0).include? 100000
> => false
> (0..Infinity).include? 100000
> => true
>
>
>

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