Categorizing Ranges

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Wed Oct 7 08:49:47 PDT 2015


On 07.10.2015 18:06, Mike Parker wrote:
> I'm looking for ideas on how to label the ranges returned from take and
> drop. Some examples of what I think are appropriate categories for other
> types of ranges:
>
> Generative - iota, recurrence, sequence
> Compositional - chain, roundRobin, transposed
> Iterative - retro, stride, lockstep
> XXX - take, drop
>
> What to put into the XXX? I first thought of "Greedy", but that has an
> association with "greedy algorithms" that I don't really like. That led
> to "Selfish", but it's admittedly not that appropriate. Beyond that, I'm
> stuck. Any and all ideas appreciated.
Specifying?


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