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[Leandro Lucarella]

Michel Fortin, el 12 de abril a las 12:54 me escribiste:
> On 2009-04-12 11:09:51 -0400, Lars Kyllingstad <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> said:
> 
> >Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>Lars Kyllingstad wrote:
> >>>I think isInfinite!() should be called isInfiniteRange!(). The current name is, in my opinion, too general.
> >>I'm undecided about this (and similar cases). isInfinite sits inside std.range, so std.range.isInfinite is clear and std.range.isInfiniteRange feels 
> >>redundant. On the other hand, I don't want to use too common symbols because then the user will be forced to prefix them whenever they clash.
> >I'm not too worried about name clashes, I just think it sounds wrong. If R is a range with infinitely many elements, I think it's more correct to say "R is 
> >an infinite range" than to say "R is infinite".
> >As an example of what I mean, let the range R be the sequence 1, 1/4, 1/9, ...:
> >   alias Sequence!("1/(n*n)", 1) R
> >Then, isInfiniteRange!(R) should obviously yield true. From a mathematical standpoint, I think the result of isInfinite!(R) is less obvious. Yes, the range 
> >has infinitely many elements, but none of them are infinite, nor is their sum infinite.
> 
> Perhaps it should be renamed to isUnbounded then.

I was about to write exaclty the same suggestion. I'm glad I read the
responses before posting =)

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