[swift-evolution] [Draft]: Introducing a striding(by:) method on 3.0 ranges

[Jose Cheyo Jimenez]

> On Apr 9, 2016, at 1:27 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Wallacy via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> Just as note, i think the sintax should be:
>> 
>> 0...9
>> 0..<9
>> 0>..9
>> 0>.<9

I agree with this. 
>> 
>> Because the intention is produce a number bigger than 0 (start). So greater
>> than zero less than nine.
> 
> That's not typically how it's written in math. When x is between two
> values a and b, it's written a < x < b. The pointy end of the symbol
> faces the smaller value. Here, 0 is the smaller value, so the pointy
> end must face it, as in `0 <.. 9` and `0 <.< 9`.

I don't agree with this and I bet this is why Perl uses ^ for that purpose. 

Including these not yet proposed operators will be distracting to the review of the proposal. These discussions would be better served as their own proposed proposal.  
I recommend removing any mention of them from this proposal.


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>> Em sex, 8 de abr de 2016 22:50, Michel Fortin via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution at swift.org> escreveu:
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>>> Le 8 avr. 2016 à 14:37, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution
>>> <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> (0 ... 9).striding(by: -2) == [9, 7, 5, 3, 1]
>>> 
>>> The above reads wrong to me. The expression has to be read differently
>>> depending on the tinny detail that is the sign of the step that comes last:
>>> 
>>> * positive step: from 0 to 9 striding by 2
>>> * negative step: to 0 from 9 striding by -2
>>> 
>>> Am I the only one thinking it's a bit too clever to swap the start and
>>> stop parts like this?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Michel Fortin
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