From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T14:07:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] New [] Semantics

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 16:24, Bill Atkins wrote:

> Also, I don't know what happened with the earlier mention about the
> confusion between .. / ... but I'm a supporter of getting rid of '...'


     I think I killed it (admittedly, the thread was on it's last legs
in any case) by pointing out an idiom (which everyone had seemed to
approve of) from the cypher-quiz that would be very hard to replicate as
concisely without exclusive ranges:

> Here's a simple example of where ... is very nice to have.  You want
> to cut a deck and card x, so that x is on the top after the cut:
>
> deck = deck.values_at(x..-1,0...x)
>
> *grin*  Try doing that as concisely without "..."


-- Markus