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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>> It seems that D would benefit from having a standard syntax format for
>>> expressing various range sets;
>>>  a. Include begin Include end, i.e. []
>>>  b. Include begin Exclude end, i.e. [)
>>>  c. Exclude begin Include end, i.e. (]
>>>  d. Exclude begin Exclude end, i.e. ()
>>
>> I'm afraid this would majorly mess with pairing of parens.
>>
>     I think Derek's point was to have *some* syntax to mean this, not 
> necessarily the one he showed (which he showed because I believe that's 
> the "standard" mathematical way to express it for English speakers). For 
> example, we could say that [] is always inclusive and have another 
> character which makes it exclusive like:
>  a. Include begin Include end, i.e. [  a .. b  ]
>  b. Include begin Exclude end, i.e. [  a .. b ^]
>  c. Exclude begin Include end, i.e. [^ a .. b  ]
>  d. Exclude begin Exclude end, i.e. [^ a .. b ^]

I think Walter's message really rendered the whole discussion moot. Post 
of the year:

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I like:

    a .. b+1

to mean inclusive range.
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Consider "+1]" a special symbol that means the range is to be closed to 
the right :o).


Andrei