On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Austin Ziegler wrote: > It's the distinction between > 0..5 == [0, 5] # mathematical notation > and > 0...5 == [0, 5) # mathematical notation > > In part, this is something that Ruby inherits -- I *think* -- from > Perl, which uses the .. and ... in this way. thank you austin for pointing this out. just to be clear - i'm not opposed to changing the '..' vs. '...' notation : i'm opposed to eliminating a consise way to represent both inclusive and exclusive ranges. it would be a grave mistake to disallowed exclusive ranges as they are the 'norm' in all of computer science. -a -- =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | A flower falls, even though we love it; | and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. | --Dogen ===============================================================================