Combining infinite ranges

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/02/2010 02:29 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 19:57, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
> <mailto:bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>> wrote:
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>     Philippe Sigaud:
>      > What, do you also need the no-arg version of iota?
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>      > :-p
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>     I'd like a generator (range) similar to the Python itertools.count,
>     that yields numbers starting from the given number (defaulting to
>     zero) and just goes on and on. You can use it in many situations:
>     http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools.count
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> Yes, it's handy. It's one of the first range I made, a year ago.

iota(n, n.max) is close. Well, it's not infinite, but cycle(iota(n, 
n.max)) is. Probably a version using BigInt would be most sensible.

Andrei