From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 1999-07-15T20:55:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:7319] Sequence

ごとけんです

Ruby 大好きっ子の Cle が嘆いているので転載します。

In message "[ruby-talk:00495] Re: Now another totally different ;-)"
    on 99/07/14, Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:

|>Perhaps the decision is not made. I'd like to hear other guys'
|>opinions.
|
|I also would like. But unfortunately, the most Ruby cracks seem
|reside on the japanese list (but I really can not imagine why ;-)
|
|It is really a pitty, that we have two lists! Without you, we even
|would not have a chance to know, what the other guys discuss.But now,
|it seems, they also don't know, what we discuss, do they?
|
|Perhaps such proposals should be mirrored to the japanese list as
|well. I assume that most Japanese which deal with programming, can at
|least read english, if not writing it? Then they could, at least,
|know, what we discuss, and discuss it as well on the japanese list.
|If a decision was made, it could be post on both lists.
|
|I think, we should take actions, that the japanese Ruby elite and we
|beginners can join together for the sake of Ruby in the world.
|
|Please imagine how many poor Python, Perl or whatever programmers have
|to use their limited and/or uncomfortable language because the don't
|know Ruby ;-)))))))
|
|Why they don't know? Because they don't know people using it! If many
|people would using it, much more people would like to learn it!

なお彼が提案しているのは(いくつかあるけど) Sequence という 
Range もどきで、Range に欠けている「逆向きの順序」や「非整数
的なギャップ」を持たせようというモノです。ちなみに彼は 
Interval という Smalltalk 由来の名前を提案して来たのですが 
Sequence の方が良かろうと僕が言っら受け入れてもらえたのでした。

-- gotoken