on Wed Apr 06 2016, Milos Rankovic <milos-AT-milos-and-slavica.net> wrote:
> On 6 Apr 2016, at 18:57, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Meanwhile, I was trying to talk about something like `stride(from: 200, > to: > 0, by: -2)`, which is easily expressed today but isn't straightforward at > all to preserve with only ranges. > > Precisely because the free function is also range-free, the sign of the step > need not repeat the direction intent which is already indicated with `from: > 200, > to: 0`. In other words, I think this is much more intuitive: > > `stride(from: 200, to: 0, by: 2)` But it leaves the “does it include 0?” question less clear than something involving 0..<200 would. -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
