Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Joey Zhou Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:58:11 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302785926 33420 65.111.164.187 (14 Apr 2011 12:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:58:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381526 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2842 and another one on Range#max, also *exclusive* range: p (1...9.3).max # cannot exclude non Integer end value (TypeError) p (1...9.3).max {|a,b| a <=> b} #=> 9 I think the result should be the same. Maybe the first one should also return 9, not an error. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.