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[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el  7 de julio a las 13:18 me escribiste:
> 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).

What about bearophile response: what about x..uint.max+1?

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