From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-13T12:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Range#length?

Hi,

In message "Re: Range#length?"
    on 03/02/13, ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:

|  ( 'abc' .. 'abf').each do |word|
|    p word
|  end
|
|should, IMHO, output
|
|  'abc'
|  'abd'
|  'abe'
|  'abf'
|
|which CAN be accomplished using succ, but breaks when the starting string
|cannot reach the ending string.  so, here is my suggestion :

Range uses String#upto which terminates loop when generated string is
longer than endpoint string.

							matz.