D3 suggestion: rename "range" to "sequence"

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Oct 3 22:15:30 PDT 2012


On 10/3/2012 9:18 PM, Tommi wrote:
> Some (not me) might argue that programming is a branch of mathematics.
> That aside, consistency makes it so that someone, who knows the term
> from previous math studies and starts learning programming, is going to
> have a pretty good idea what the term means even before it's been
> explained to him.

Sure, but if there's not an exact 1:1 correspondence, naming them the 
same as mathematical terms can bring along counterintuitive baggage.

There's plenty of that already with floating point 'math' !


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