On creating an infinite range, I think it'd be wonderful if Double/
POSITIVE_INFINITY or something like it would be bound to a core
symbol, such as infinity or something. That'd way, one would be able
to do things like (range 3 infinity) or (> infinity 5).

CuppoJava, how long ago did those discussions that you're talking
about occur?

On Jun 23, 2:15 pm, "Stephen C. Gilardi" <squee...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Chouser wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM,  
> > CuppoJava<patrickli_2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> (iterate inc 0)
>
> > Just riffing here, but what if range took some kind of
> > sentinel to indicate an infinite range?  So instead of
> > (iterate inc 0), you could say (range 0 :forever).  Then
> > that would also allow:
>
> >  (range 0 :forever 2) ; even numbers
> >  (range 1 :forever 2) ; odd numbers
>
> Along these lines, please see also:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/5e665ce7a318...
>
> --Steve
>
>  smime.p7s
> 3KViewDownload
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