[swift-evolution] Feature proposal: Range operator with step

[Erica Sadun]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Stephen Canon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 6, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Stephen Canon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> One question that I *do* think we should answer, is whether the elements
>>> of
>>> 
>>>    (0..<199).striding(by: -2)
>>> 
>>> are even or odd.
>> 
>> Odd.  I don’t believe that many real use cases care, but odd is more efficient from a performance perspective.  Needs to be documented clearly, however.
> 
> Sorry, I was thinking of (0…199).striding(by: -2).
> 
> For the (0..<199) case, Erica’s assessment seems about right, though it isn’t at all obvious how it generalizes to floating point strides.

(l..<h).striding(by: -dX) is undefined for floating point strides as there cannot be a starting value.

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