Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[Leandro Lucarella]

Justin Johansson, el 24 de julio a las 23:06 me escribiste:
> It sounds like the D PL has invented the range idiom unlike any other PL.
> 
> Since the dawn of PL's, which must be about 50 years now since Lisp
> for example, it is hard to imagine a new PL inventing a completely
> new idiom as "ranges" seem to purport. Given the many academic
> arguments for ranges as opposed to iterators, why is it that the
> D PL seems to be the major if not only sponsor of the range idiom?
> 
> Is D really taking the lead here and is it likely that other PL's
> will eventually take D's lead?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/range/index.html

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