Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result

From	Joey Zhou <yimutang@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result
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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote in post #992890:
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> By definition, floats cannot be used in ranges, when you want to
> iterate over it.
>
>               matz.

But it seems that floats can be used in a range which can be iterated.

int..float is OK, it can call methods from Enumerable module.

But int..float sometimes result in confusion.

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Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> - 2011-04-14 19:08 -0500
  Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result Joey Zhou <yimutang@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 21:22 -0500

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