between and among: worth Phobosization?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:39:56PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 16/12/13 23:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >I guess if we need several versions of between, we could give up on it.
> 
> What's wrong with having it implemented analogous to
> std.random.uniform -- taking a bounds parameter which allows for
> open and/or closed at either end, with the default being "[)" ... ?
> 
> By the way, I'd also like to see that open/closed-at-either-end
> specialization extended to std.range.iota().

Oooh, do I hear a volunteer for cleaning up iota? ;-)

While you're at it, you might as well implement:

	https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10762

:-P


T

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