From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T10:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] New [] Semantics

Hi --

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Atkins wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:09:52 +0900, Charles Comstock <cc1@cec.wustl.edu> wrote:
> > This makes perfect sense when the range is over numeric values, but to
> > me ("a"..("c".succ)) is ugly and not easily read.  Or any other range of
> > objects like that for that matter.
> 
> Good point.  I hadn't thought about that.  I just think the difference
> between .. / ... is sort of confusing.

There are a couple of mneumonics for remembering which is which.  

  .. has two letters:     in
  ... has three letters:  out

:-)

Or you can think of the three dots as kind of pushing the end value
out of reach, so that the included values of the range can't quite get
there.  


David

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David A. Black
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