You can make any type iterable (by defining start, next, and done); you could, if you wanted, make Int/Integer/whatever iterable. Making an Int literal a syntax error here would create inconsistent behavior when someone (inevitably) decides to iterate over Ints for some reason.
I assume you got a NoMethod error about start? -- Leah On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:19 PM, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote: > > maybe there's a good reason for this (i suspect there is, but i'm not > seeing it right now). but if there isn't, removing it might save some poor > typist or confused newbie from a frustrated debugging session. > > the problem is that > > for i in 8 > ... > end > > isn't a syntax error (when what was meant was the range 1:8) > > cheers, > andrew >
