From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T01:12:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Hi,

In message "Re: Bizarre Range behavior"
    on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:35:41 +0900, Rob Biedenharn <Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com> writes:

|I'd actually prefer *less* magic here. (And I hope that your second  
|example with "2"..."20" wouldn't include "20" since the range excludes  
|its end.)

May bad for the error in the example.  It wouldn't include "20" in the
actual code.

|The surprising aspect is that the Range#to_a can give an array that  
|has just the #begin. String#upto perhaps needs more magic to know that  
|#succ will eventually work ("9".upto("10") as well as  
|"cat".upto("bird"))

We have to define the "magic" behavior first, but I love magic if we
can make specific definition.

							matz.