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

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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

#2895 — Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result

Hi,

In message "Re: Exclusive float range, Range#step result in counterintuitive result"
    on Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:47:03 +0900, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> writes:
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|Joey Zhou wrote in post #992758:
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|> The results seem so counterintuitive, is it a bug? Maybe I should report
|> it?
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|By definition, floats cannot be used in ranges.

By definition, floats cannot be used in ranges, when you want to
iterate over it.

							matz.

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#2908

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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