From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-03-19T06:15:51+09:00
Subject: Re: why no decreasing enumerations?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:52:01AM +0900, Intransition wrote:
> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:21:21 PM UTC-4, Jan E. wrote:
> >
> > I think you misunderstand the purpose of ranges. They aren't meant to be 
> > ordered lists but rather some kind of abstract interval (like in 
> > mathematics). You can check if a specific object is in the range, but 
> > you may not even be able to enumerate all the elements of the range.
> 
> Ranges server dual purpose, so I don't think that's the reason. I think 
> there is no other reason then no one has implemented support for descending 
> ranges. It does require a new method #pred (opposite of #succ) though.

Shouldn't that be #prec (precede/succeed, or precessive/successive)
rather than #pred?

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