* range.c (Range#size): [DOC] improve description and add examples.

Patch by @skade. [Fixes GH-501] git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@44549 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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+Fri Jan 10 06:23:21 2014  Benoit Daloze  <eregontp@gmail.com>
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+	* range.c (Range#size): [DOC] improve description and add examples.
+	  Patch by @skade. [Fixes GH-501]
+
 Fri Jan 10 00:47:52 2014  Josef Stribny  <strzibny@gmail.com>
 
 	* ext/tk/extconf.rb: fix to pass arrays instead of strings to

diff --git a/range.c b/range.c
@@ -711,9 +711,12 @@ sym_each_i(RB_BLOCK_CALL_FUNC_ARGLIST(v, arg))
  *  call-seq:
  *     rng.size                   -> num
  *
- *  Returns the number of elements in the range.
+ *  Returns the number of elements in the range. Both the begin and the end of
+ *  the Range must be Numeric, otherwise nil is returned.
  *
  *    (10..20).size    #=> 11
+ *    ('a'..'z').size  #=> nil
+ *    (-Float::INFINITY..Float::INFINITY).size #=> Infinity
  */
 
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