From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2000-12-18T00:34:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7509] Re: question: 'A'..'k'

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "B" == Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>B> I would assume that is because both Perl and Ruby use the same
>B> string incrementing algorithm.
>
>pigeon% ruby -e 'p "()".succ'
>"(*"
>pigeon%
>
>
>pigeon% perl -le '$m = "()"; print ++$m'
>1
>pigeon%
>
Cute. :-)

Yes, they are similar but not exactly the same.

For the record I have several times tried to use string
increment in Perl and each time I wound up finding a
clearly better solution which did not use string
increment.  I am not saying that string increment is
useless, but I have not personally found a use for it.

Cheers,
Ben
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