Issue #20080 has been updated by zverok (Victor Shepelev). @Dan0042 To be fair, that ticket seems to have rejected "old-style" deconstruction mainly (`b, e = range`). The possibility of `#deconstruct` is mentioned in one of the comments, but rejection is more vague on it. ---------------------------------------- Feature #20080: Introduce #bounds method on Range https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20080#change-106488 * Author: stuyam (Stuart Yamartino) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- Followup Reference: #20027 **Updated Proposal:** (based on many wonderful suggestions!) 1. Call the method `#bounds`. ```ruby first, last = (1..300).bounds # => [1, 300] first, last = (300..1).bounds # => [300, 1] first, last = (..300).bounds # => [nil, 300] first, last = (1..).bounds # => [1, nil] ``` 2. Add `exclude_end?` support so re-hydration of Range works: ```ruby b = (1..2).bounds #=> [1,2] Range.new(*b) #=> 1..2 b = (1...2).bounds #=> [1,2,true] Range.new(*b) #=> 1...2 ``` I did a better job of outlining use cases in this comment below so I will let that speak for itself: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20080#note-3 **Original Proposal:** This feature request is to implement a method called `#begin_and_end` on `Range` that returns an array of the first and last value stored in a range: ```ruby (1..300).begin_and_end #=> [1, 300] first, last = (300..1).begin_and_end first #=> 300 last #=> 1 ``` I believe this would be a great addition to Ranges as they are often used to pass around a single object used to hold endpoints, and this allows easier retrieval of those endpoints. This would allow easier deconstruction into start and end values using array deconstruction as well as a simpler way to serialize to a more primitive object such as an array for database storage. This implementation was suggested by @mame in my initial feature suggestion regarding range deconstruction: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20027 This implementation would work similar to how `#minmax` works where it returns an array of two numbers, however the difference is that `#minmax` doesn't work with reverse ranges as @Dan0042 pointed out in the link above: ```ruby (1..42).minmax #=> [1, 42] (42..1).minmax #=> [nil, nil] ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/