[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Conventionalizing stride semantics

[Erica Sadun]

Please disregard previous reply. Just realized, what about 10..>1 by -1?  upTo: doesn't work there.

> On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:52 AM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> Style 1: [start, end) by interval
>> This style is currently called to. I propose to rename it towards as each
>> value works towards end. The final value in the progression is less than end
> 
> The current usage of 'through' seems unambiguous to me.  'to' could be
> improved by using 'upTo' instead.
> 
> stride(from: 1, upTo: 10, by: 1) // [1, 10)
> 
> 'upTo' is already precedented in Collection.prefix(upTo:).
> 
> Dmitri
> 
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