From: Scott Briggs <scott.br@...>
Date: 2009-08-05T04:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Ah, I should clarify that.  When ruby interprets "11" as an integer 11 
for "1".."11", then why doesn't it do the same when it's "2".."11"?

Scott

Scott Briggs wrote:
> Matt, that doesn't explain why "1".."11" works and "2".."11" doesn't 
> work.
> 
> Scott
> 
> Matthew K. Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Scott Briggs wrote:
>> 
>>>>> ("2".."11").to_a
>>> => []
>>>>> ("1".."11").to_a
>>> => ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11"]
>>>
>> 
>> It's because you're using strings -- "11" comes before "2", hence the
>> failure, because it's an invalid range, just as if you had (11 .. 2) is
>> invalid.
>> 
>> Matt

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