Categorizing Ranges

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On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 15:06:55 UTC, 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.

Selective

Although, then stride fits better into Selective than into 
Iterative. On the other hand, iterative seems not that fitting to 
me. lockstep might also be Compositional.