From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T07:22:09+09:00
Subject: .. and ... aren't operators, maybe they should be?

I was just wondering if maybe the range construction syntax could be
implemented as a set of  operators?

ie

class Object
       def ..(other)
             Range.new(self, other)
       end
       def  ...(other)
             Range.new(self, other, true)
       end
end

This wouldn't implement the parser much  (I don't think any way) and
it could be useful for things like
defining inifinite lazy lists, or other ranges with weird natures

ie

class InfRange
     attr_reader :first
      def take(n)
             i = self.first
             1.upto(n) { yield(i); i = i.succ }
       end
      def initialize(n)
             @first = n
      end
end

class Fixnum
           def ..(other)
                 if other.nil?
                    InfRange.new(self)
                 else
                     Range.new(self, other)
                  end
          end
         def ...(other)
               if other.nil?
                  InfRange.new(self)
               else
                  Range.new(self, other, true)
              end
        end
end

(1..inf).take(5) do |x|
         p x
end

Ok thats a pretty silly example, but lets say succ was more
complicated than just self + 1

Eh maybe I'm crazy and this is useless. Just seems to be in line with
<< and + etc. being changeable.