From: Mathieu Bouchard Date: 2001-01-07T05:33:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:8759] Re: (start..end) where start > end > If someone came up with a good algorithm/method to do the inverse > of #succ, I think matz would be willing to talk about it. class Numeric; def pred self - 1 end end class String; def pred raise NotImplementError end end matju