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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>>> It seems that D would benefit from having a standard syntax format for
>>>>> expressing various range sets;
>>>>>  a. Include begin Include end, i.e. []
>>>>>  b. Include begin Exclude end, i.e. [)
>>>>>  c. Exclude begin Include end, i.e. (]
>>>>>  d. Exclude begin Exclude end, i.e. ()
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid this would majorly mess with pairing of parens.
>>>>
>>>     I think Derek's point was to have *some* syntax to mean this, not 
>>> necessarily the one he showed (which he showed because I believe 
>>> that's the "standard" mathematical way to express it for English 
>>> speakers). For example, we could say that [] is always inclusive and 
>>> have another character which makes it exclusive like:
>>>  a. Include begin Include end, i.e. [  a .. b  ]
>>>  b. Include begin Exclude end, i.e. [  a .. b ^]
>>>  c. Exclude begin Include end, i.e. [^ a .. b  ]
>>>  d. Exclude begin Exclude end, i.e. [^ a .. b ^]
>>
>> I think Walter's message really rendered the whole discussion moot. 
>> Post of the year:
>>
>> =========================
>> I like:
>>
>>    a .. b+1
>>
>> to mean inclusive range.
>> =========================
>>
>> Consider "+1]" a special symbol that means the range is to be closed 
>> to the right :o).
>>
>     Ah, but:
>  - This is inconsistent between the left and right limit;
>  - This only works for integers, not for floating point numbers.

How does it not work for floating point numbers?

Andrei