Lists are pretty core, I don't really have a problem with short expressive syntax that reads well. 'Well' meaning closer to reading like English. i.e I'd never say "I'll drink Bourbon on the range of days from 1 to 3, then Scotch on the days that range from day 4 to day 7". No way, it's just "Bourbon on days 1-3, Scotch on days 4-7". In other words, when you declare a range, the more interesting and important thing you are trying to express is what you are doing *with* that range - i.e. what I'm drinking, the 'List.Range' clutter waters that down as noise in a lot of cases.
I can see this is probably a 50/50 among users - so although I personally will miss it a little bit, I can see how the decision to make it easier for newcomers to the language to get started would tip the balance in favor of List.Range. After all, 'Lets be mainstream' effectively means 'Let's convert people who currently just use JS' so this call must be in pursuit of increasing the 'conversion ratio' On Monday, 14 November 2016 23:14:58 UTC, Joey Eremondi wrote: > > It's also worth mentioning that adding syntax for something usually > indicates that it's a "core" feature. > > In C-like languages, looping from integers in a range is the key iteration > structure. But in Elm, fold and map are much more important. So having > special syntax could give beginners the idea that [..] is a primary > iteration tool, when it actually comes up in relatively few cases. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Francesco Orsenigo < > francesco...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yup. >> It is just not used often enough to warrant special syntax. >> >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Witold Szczerba >> <witold...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> > I think List.range is just fine. No need for special syntax and strange >> > function names like ".." (hard to browse, find online, etc.). >> > >> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:29 PM, أحمد حبنكة <ahmad1...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> What do you think about my suggestion in previous reply ? replacing >> >> List.range with List.(..) operator ? >> >> >> >> >> >> بتاريخ الاثنين، 14 نوفمبر، 2016 2:43:49 ص UTC+2، كتب Max Goldstein: >> >>> >> >>> Sometimes it's useful to pass arguments to List.range and have it be >> >>> empty when a > b. >> >>> >> >>> Perhaps there should be List.rangeWithStep 5 1 -1 to solve your >> problem. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> >> email to elm-discuss...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> > Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elm-discuss/z8t8u2f3iWk/unsubscribe. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> > elm-discuss...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elm-discuss...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
