From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Mar.24.02@...
Date: 2002-03-25T01:17:35+09:00
Subject: Re: is there any way ...

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In article <20020309001905.FCKY4641.europa@there>,
Albert Wagner  <alwagner@tcac.net> wrote:
>I agree.  It's counter-intuitive.

- - I think ... is syntactic sugar that most sane programmers
will ignore, but you should not mess with the a..b 
semantics. That's much too common a usage among other
languages. Where ruby intersects with other languages
it should not violate the principal of least surprise.

- - I would be quite upset to find that a..b did not 
include b. 

- - Booker C. Bense 


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