Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Derek Parnell wrote:
It seems that D would benefit from having a standard syntax format for
expressing various range sets;
a. Include begin Include end, i.e. []
b. Include begin Exclude end, i.e. [)
c. Exclude begin Include end, i.e. (]
d. Exclude begin Exclude end, i.e. ()
I'm afraid this would majorly mess with pairing of parens.
I think Derek's point was to have *some* syntax to mean this, not
necessarily the one he showed (which he showed because I believe that's
the "standard" mathematical way to express it for English speakers). For
example, we could say that [] is always inclusive and have another
character which makes it exclusive like:
a. Include begin Include end, i.e. [ a .. b ]
b. Include begin Exclude end, i.e. [ a .. b ^]
c. Exclude begin Include end, i.e. [^ a .. b ]
d. Exclude begin Exclude end, i.e. [^ a .. b ^]
I think Walter's message really rendered the whole discussion moot. Post
of the year:
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I like:
a .. b+1
to mean inclusive range.
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Consider "+1]" a special symbol that means the range is to be closed to
the right :o).
Andrei
