From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-09-30T23:25:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Range syntax theory

Zach Dennis ha scritto:

> How range operators work seems sort of backwards to me. It would appear 
> as if the "..." (three dots) would be the inclusive one, including the 
> last value and the ".." (two dots) would be exclusive and exclude the 
> last value.

actually, I thought till one moment ago that ... was going to be 
deprecated. I looked up and found that I misremembered this:
http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/rc2003/mgp00025.html

I'd strongly advocate the elimination of z...y .
It is completely non obvious, and it has no advantage _i can see_ over 
x..k .


Maybe you can submit an rcr about it, you'll get many positive votes, I 
guess.

PS
I also think that if x...k disappear we could have an x.. literal, 
(equivalent to x..-1 to express unlimited Ranges) without ambiguity.

I would love to have :
'ciao'[1..]=='iao' #=>true
instead of
'ciao'[1..-1]=='iao' #=>true