Iota

[Salih Dincer]

On Thursday, 4 August 2022 at 21:31:02 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> Strictly speaking, you don't even need that; all you need is a 
> range that generates the natural numbers, and you can write
>
>     naturals.take(n)
>
> ...to get the equivalent of iota(n).
>
> That said, I don't think you have to aim for total minimalism 
> to avoid generality creep here. You just need to know what 
> iota's purpose for inclusion is, so that you can say "no, 
> that's not iota's job; use generate/recurrence/something else 
> instead" when someone proposes an overly-general enhancement.

I agree!  It's like rangeTo and downTo in Kotlin, right?  The 
simpler, the better!

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