Stupid little iota of an idea

[Justin Bogner]

Don <nospam at nospam.com> writes:
> I don't like interval at all, because I don't think it includes the
> notion of 'stepping'. An interval is just, everything from A to B,
> without necessarily specifying how you reach everything in that
> interval. Whereas iota includes the stepping.
> (I would like to see intervals in the language, but just as an [a,b] pair).
>
> OTOH iota() is unintuitive to me, and I do keep reading it as itoa().
> Sadly I don't have any better suggestions.

Woudn't "step" be fairly appropriate? It does generate a step function
after all.