From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-08-17T07:20:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Hi,

In message "Re: Bizarre Range behavior"
    on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:30:57 +0900, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> writes:

|Well my vote is to cook it to use the methods of the endpoints rather
|than doing something special IF the endpoints are strings and both
|happen to be numerical.  That seems as half cooked to me as the
|current situation.

Well, since it's a magic, we need to draw some line according to
the trade-offs.

|And if you follow the "if they're numerical" path what do you do about
|things like
|
|("0x32".."0xFE").to_a
|("032".."0100").to_a
|("032".."0x32").to_a

Since #succ does not treat 0x32 etc. specially, I don't think we need
to consider them as numerical.

I am not going to add magic anywhere but it has already existed.

							matz.