Russian translation of the "range" term?

Chris Williams via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 12 11:30:32 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 at 11:38:52 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 November 2014 at 11:50:18 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko 
> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm unsure what is the Russian equivalent for the term 
>> "range", as in "D range", the generalization of a pair of 
>> iterators.
>
> I think "последовательность" (sequence) is the most 
> appropriate, because the defining characteristic of an input 
> range (most common one) is ability to provide data 
> sequentially. Also, afaik, some languages like F# and Clojure 
> use this term (often shortened to 'seq') for the same thing 
> that D calls ranges.

While sequence makes more sense for how std.range thinks of 
ranges, I think the history of the term is closer to how we use 
slices. So another (English) alternative to try might be a 
"view". It's a fairly common term in SQL databases, so presumably 
there's a translation for it in Russian.


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