From: Kenny Tilton <ktilton@...>
Date: 2002-03-09T14:33:22+09:00
Subject: Re: is there any way ...



Jim Weirich wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Ron" == Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@REMOVEacm.org> writes:
> 
>     Ron> I'm sorry I wasn't clear in my objection. I'd think it was
>     Ron> more mnemonic if the longer range used the longer series of
>     Ron> dots. The way it is now,
> 
>     Ron> 1..3 = 1, 2, 3  and
>     Ron> 1...3 = 1, 2
> 
>     Ron> Just a notion ...
> 
> You've just chosen the wrong mnemonic.  The extra dot has just pushes
> the "3" outside the range so that it is excluded.
> 
> (Ok, I guess that does sound hokey)

Not at all, good mnemonic, occurred to me, too. Probably how it got
picked!

But 1.~3 or 1.!3 (depending on what Ruby considers "not") would have
been an excellent choices. Then you could also have 1~.3 or 1!.3 and
1~~3 or 1!!3.

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 kenny tilton
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