From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-08-05T22:48:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Hi,

In message "Re: Bizarre Range behavior"
    on Wed, 5 Aug 2009 20:14:45 +0900, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> writes:

|Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
|> What if I sprinkle more magic to the language and change String#upto
|> to generate numerical sequences when all characters in edges are
|> digits, 

|-1 for added complexity with little benefit

I admit it's a dark art of Perl-ish, but String#upto and String#succ
that a range of strings calls already have astonishingly Perl-ish
complexity (and I don't think we can remove the magic), and I prefer
hard-boiled magic to half-cooked current one.  Actually, I think this
magic is the one I should have invented and added years ago.

							matz.