From: "Jan E." <jan.e@...>
Date: 2012-03-19T04:17:55+09:00
Subject: Re: why no decreasing enumerations?

Well, I'm glad for his objections. I don't think we need another PHP 
with all the data structures mixed together. ;-)

Back on topic: I think it's actually a problem of mistakable syntax. It 
looks like a short notation of a sequence. Like you would write

2,4,...,10

in mathematics. In fact, Haskell has this kind of list notation:

[1..5]  -- short for [1,2,3,4,5]

Many Ruby beginners try to write this down in Ruby, too. But in Ruby, 
the dot syntax describes a range, and a range isn't a sequence.

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