I verified the intent from Larry, and ".." is definitely (and will be, at least in Perl 5) only ever meant for doing the expansion on the "A".."Z", "a".."z" (and "0..9") ranges.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen