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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com> wrote: > So, what's the intention of the range operator, then? ... is a generator that lazily enumerates a series. .. is a constructor for a Range object. They're two different things, with different behaviors. In particular, consider that pi ~~ 0..4 is true, because pi is within the range; but pi ~~ 0...4 is false, because pi is not one of the generated elements. > I guess you could write: > > ア, イ, ウ, エ, オ, カ ... ヂ,ツ ...モ,ヤ, ユ, ヨ ... ロ, ワ ... ヴ (add quotes to taste) > > But that seems quite a bit more painful than: Perhaps the syllabic kana could be the "integer" analogs, and what you get when you iterate over the range using ..., while the modifier kana would not be generated by the series ア ... ヴ but would be considered in the range ア .. ヴ? I wouldn't object to such script-specific behavior, though perhaps it doesn't belong in core. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next