Whither Tango?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-02-20 11:04:36 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> "iota" is already present with the same semantics in 1.25 languages: 
> C++ and Go. Anyhow, what's a better name?

"iota" is perhaps a silly looking name, but at least you're not bound 
to confuse it with something else. It's always better to have names you 
don't understand (forcing you to look at the doc) than names you 
understand subtly wrong (which might introduce bugs).

The best way to get rid of iota would be to replace it with the same 
syntax the language already use elsewhere:

	1..10

Like ruby does with its range operator[^1]. But that's not so simple as 
changing a name...

[^1]: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Range.html

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