From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T00:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Range syntax theory

gabriele renzi wrote:
> Brian Schr�der ha scritto:
> 
> 
>> Anyhow. Why does your proposal conflict with  the ... operator?
> 
> 
> well, just because
> x...y
> could be parsed both as
> (x..).y
> and as
> (x...y)
> 
> 
Should have thought more myself.

The other problem I see now, is that if i can have
  x..

Id also expect
  ..x

And on the other hand, one can always use

   INFINITY = 1.0/0.0

and write

   -INFINITY..INFINITY

and thats even better readable.

And for own classes it is also possible to create "your own infinity" ;).

So on further thinking -1 because it would add to language noise.

regards,

Brian
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Brian Schr�der
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