<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello Milos,</div>Good question<div class="">was thinking about this too.</div><div class="">that would imply the ‘by”value should/must always be an absolute value?</div><div class="">however (if it is a var) it cannot be guaranteed to be + or - </div><div class="">that’s why I thought to leave it as is.</div><div class="">?</div><div class="">TedvG</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 06.04.2016, at 22:18, Milos Rankovic <<a href="mailto:milos@milos-and-slavica.net" class="">milos@milos-and-slavica.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 6 Apr 2016, at 21:08, Ted F.A. van Gaalen via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">v1 > v2: is allowed and correctly evaluated. e.g. (8.0…-3.14159).by(-0.0001) </span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">If the range does not assume `start >= end`, is it still necessary to also indicate the traversal direction with the sign of the step (`-0.0001`)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">milos</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>