Michel Fortin, el 12 de abril a las 12:54 me escribiste: > On 2009-04-12 11:09:51 -0400, Lars Kyllingstad <pub...@kyllingen.nospamnet> > said: > > >Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >>Lars Kyllingstad wrote: > >>>I think isInfinite!() should be called isInfiniteRange!(). The current > >>>name is, in my opinion, too general. > >>I'm undecided about this (and similar cases). isInfinite sits inside > >>std.range, so std.range.isInfinite is clear and std.range.isInfiniteRange > >>feels > >>redundant. On the other hand, I don't want to use too common symbols > >>because then the user will be forced to prefix them whenever they clash. > >I'm not too worried about name clashes, I just think it sounds wrong. If R > >is a range with infinitely many elements, I think it's more correct to say > >"R is > >an infinite range" than to say "R is infinite". > >As an example of what I mean, let the range R be the sequence 1, 1/4, 1/9, > >...: > > alias Sequence!("1/(n*n)", 1) R > >Then, isInfiniteRange!(R) should obviously yield true. From a mathematical > >standpoint, I think the result of isInfinite!(R) is less obvious. Yes, the > >range > >has infinitely many elements, but none of them are infinite, nor is their > >sum infinite. > > Perhaps it should be renamed to isUnbounded then.
I was about to write exaclty the same suggestion. I'm glad I read the responses before posting =) -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you don't know what direction you should take You don't know where you are