From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2009-08-20T11:27:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Range behavior

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

While investigating this I came across:
 >> "\0019".succ
=> "\00110"

I expected the result to be "\0020"; is that a bug?

--
Daniel