Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[BCS]

Hello dsimcha,

> Oh, I forgot to mention memory allocation issues:
>
> stack overflows
> just plain running out of memory

Easy to account for

> heap fragmentation

Not so easy but if you can show the maximum size of the allocated memory 
you might be able to prove there is no allocation of the n-1 parts that doesn't 
leave a hole big enough for the nth part.

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