On 2009-11-09, Tony Arcieri <tony / medioh.com> wrote:
> The only reasons it's impossible are cultural, not technical.  If you think
> there's a valid technical reason why it's "impossible" to implement perhaps
> you'd care to state it.

It's impossible to implement as a method.  You could introduce it as
syntactic sugar, but it's not so clear that this would be worth the
trouble.  In particular, incrementing is inefficient in Ruby because
it would involve creating many new objects to iterate.

-s
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