On 18 May 2014, at 18:50, Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On May 18, 2014, at 7:59 AM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> yes I know, I was just wondering if that was normal behaviour because it >> looks quite confusing to me. > > Personally I find it a natural way of expressing an empty interval. to: is > syntactic sugar for to:by:, and so the default of 1 for the step (the by: > arg) is expected. > > I'm dissatisfied however that I can't write $A to: $Z, or 1 to: Infinity > positive (or 1 to: Float inf, ugh). Since there is Character>>#to: you can actually write $A to: $Z although it returns an Array instead of a String, but that can be solved with ($a to: $z) as: String or String withAll: ($a to: $z) > Eliot (phone) >> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Hi Kilon, >> >> On May 18, 2014, at 6:32 AM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > while I was recording my Interval video tutorial I observed that Interval >> > does not behave as I would expect . Even though (1 to: 100) works as I >> > expect, (1 to: -100) does not. In case of ( 1 to: -100) it created the >> > interval object but it does not populate it with the numbers. >> > >> >> You have to say >> 1 to: -100 by: -1 >> >> > I would expect it to populate the interval with the numbers or at least >> > fail with an error. This does not look to me like normal behaviour. >> > >> > (-100 to: 1) on the other hand work as expected. >> > >> > Any thoughts on this issue ? >> >>
