From: google@... (Tom Payne)
Date: 2003-02-12T19:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#length?

"Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com> wrote in message news:<345501c2d1ea$798afee0$6401a8c0@MELONBALLER>...
> Oh, well.  Nothing a good ``last - (exclude_end? ? 1 : 0)'' can't handle.

How about:

class Range
  def count
    n = 0
    each { n += 1 }
    n
  end
end

It does return the correct answer for all ranges (if you're patient).

No, I'm not serious!

T