From: Mike Campbell Date: 2002-04-24T23:52:56+09:00 Subject: RE: Numberic#prev I'm not sure what your point is. I was merely pointing out that there IS precedent (no pun intended) for having a string successor operation without a corresponding predecessor operation. The implementation of it wasn't at issue. > >>>>> "M" == Mike Campbell writes: > > M> $x = "foo"; > M> $x++; # => "fop" > > Try it with "/" and do the same with ruby