From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-02T21:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range

Hi,

In message "Strange behaviour of Strings in Range"
    on 04/05/01, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> writes:

|  r1 = ("\000" .. "\377")   # all characters?
|
|  r1.to_a
|  # => ..... "6", "7", "8", "9"]
|
|  r1.to_a.size 
|  # => 58
|
|Hm, I guess this is because of "9".succ gives "10", and "10" has a size
|of two. 
|
|But why does "9".succ results in "10"?

It's caused by "succ" magic.  Let me think about either subtracting
magic, or adding more magic.

							matz.