Thanks for your interest, Adrian! Comments inline: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Adrian Crum <adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote: > On 1/24/2012 6:58 PM, Matt Benson wrote: >> >> IMO the difference between [lang]'s and [functor]'s range concepts is that >> those in [lang] are intended to be able to say whether a given value is in >> the Range, but, with the exception of CharRange (this class is not even >> public), they make no provision for iterating over members of the range. I >> would therefore design a [functor]-targeted Range builder API to allow the >> user to specify how next values are obtained. Range may not even be the best >> word to describe the behavior we are trying to model here, so let's be open >> to reinterpretation as we proceed. > > > From my perspective, Range + Step = Sequence.
I'll buy that if noone else objects. :) > A Range iterator would be > useful for implementing mathematical sets. e.g. integer range a..b step 3 yields the sequence of integers n greater than or equal to a and less than or equal to b where (n - a) % 3 == 0 ? Is this useful? Matt > > -Adrian > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
