On Oct 22, 10:51 pm, SigmundV <sigmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 22, 6:32 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve > > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > Sure. But the downside of sets is that, like lists, they are not lazy, > > Thank you for pointing this out. I agree that it's not a viable > alternative for large domains. Storing the bounds and the resolution > should be enough. > > /Sigmund
This kind of question is a nontrivial research issue -- dealt with for example in the polyhedral language alpha: http://www.irisa.fr/cosi/Rajopadhye/dag-talk.ps -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list