On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:58 PM, David Vallner wrote:

> You could possibly hack around that in Range code to provide for  
> data types where generating successors is inconsistent with  
> comparison, but I wouldn't like to see that.

It's not too tough in this case:

 >> ("1".."10").to_a.include?("2")
=> true

James Edward Gray II