On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Vraj Mohan wrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: Range#length?"
> >     on 03/02/12, "Chris Pine" <nemo / hellotree.com> writes:
> >
> > |Well, it's a shame that something wasn't put in to refer to the last actual
> > |element in the range.  That's actually all I want.  As I said, #end, #last,
> > |and #max all return `99' for both 3..99 and 3...99.
> > |
> > |Oh, well.  Nothing a good ``last - (exclude_end? ? 1 : 0)'' can't handle.
> >
> > Do you think of a good name for it?  I'm glad to add a method if
> > you have a good name.
> >
> > 							matz.
> >
> How about "last_member"?

what would be the last_member of

(0.0 ... 42.0) ??

-a

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