From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T03:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#length?

On 2003-02-12 03:12:19 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Do you think of a good name for it?  I'm glad to add a method if
> you have a good name.

It doesn't seem to work for general ranges:

r = "a".."z"
    ==>"a".."z"
r.last - (r. exclude_end? ? 1 : 0)
NoMethodError: undefined method `-' for "z":String
        from (irb):4

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