From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T01:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Hi,

In message "Re: Bizarre Range behavior"
    on Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:29:08 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com> writes:

|If you make this change, how would you then accomplish the old
|version? In other words, if you wanted:
|
|   "2".."19"
|
|to obey ASCII/character code logic, would there still be a way?

The point is the current behavior is not really obeying
ASCII/character code logic.  It's a half-cooked magic (comparison done
by dictionary order, but increment done by numerical order), so if we
can come up with the better logic, we can override, I think.  The
current logic is too weird so that I believe none uses it in the real
code.

Since no one is using this logic, it doesn't matter if we change it,
or keep it if compatibility matters most.  I prefer moving forward.

							matz.