From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2009-08-18T21:31:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> I repeat.  If String#upto has not contained magic (that inherited from
> Perl) for long time, I wouldn't add any magic that is difficult to
> explain using messaging model.  But in reality, it does now, and we
> cannot remove it.  So, I'd rather move forward to avoid astonishment
> of mere mortal seeing:
> 
>   ("9".."11").to_a
> 
> where String#succ generates "9", "10", "11".

That sounds nice and consistent, but why limit ourselves to numbers?
     ("y".."aa").to_a
should then generate ["y", "z", "aa"] since that's what String#succ 
generates. Sounds like this could snowball into a nightmare of 
incompatible changes.

--
Daniel