From: ts Date: 2002-08-22T01:03:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Puzzeled by Range object >>>>> "R" == Robert McGovern writes: R> However the second, simply printed nothing. Am I wrong to expect that a R> range can work for both up and down? Range can work only up. Except for Fixnum and Numeric, Range#each use #succ and it's difficult to define the inverse of #succ for any type Guy Decoux