From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T23:38:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Intervals in Ruby


On Oct 25, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:43:33 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> I understand that in Ruby you have quite a few choices, some of which
>> are half-open like Python, some of which are closed:
> ...
>> My question is: how useful are all these different mechanisms? Do you
>> find that having two operators .. and ... is a blessing, or a curse
>> because you can never remember which is which?
>>
>> How useful are the closed interval forms? Do you find yourself making
>> off- by-one errors or needing to increment/decrement variables by  
>> one?
>
>
> Thank you for everyone who wrote back, all good food for thought.
>
> Are there many (any?) good examples of where you need to iterate  
> over an
> integer count, rather than directly over a data structure?
>
>
>
> -- 
> Steven
>
If there is one thing Ruby gets right over every other language it's  
iteration/looping mechanisms.
they look strange at first, but use them a bit and the feel natural