On 10/15/21 11:35 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
On Friday, October 15, 2021, Ron <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The numeric ranges 0-10 and 10-19 overlap, just as the time ranges
00:01:00-00:00:02:00 overlaps 00:02:00-00:03:00.
*It's the programmer's responsibility* to say what s/he really means,
not for "the system" to make that choice.
The system has canonical representation for discrete element range. The
upper bound is exclusive, the lower bound is inclusive. All the docs are
doing is stating the obvious consequence of that rule.
The “numeric range 0-10” is under specified and thus, as written, one must
abide by the rule, implying [). The programmer is free to fully specify
their range to have the upper bound inclusive, but canonicalization would
then just change it to be “0-11” with the [) implied.
Prima facie, if you were told "numbers in the range 0-10", would you really
think, "ah, they *really* mean 0 through 9"?
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