From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-08-18T22:23:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Hi,

In message "Re: Bizarre Range behavior"
    on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:31:38 +0900, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> writes:

|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.

Indeed.  The issue is that it's not easily distinguishable whether
a sequence using #succ from a string reaches to another, or not.
If there's affordable scheme to implement, I'd love to check in.

							matz.