I agree with 90% of your comment.<br><br>But, ranges are useful for more than just stride, and so I would say it doesn't make sense to have an intrinsic direction for Range, which pointedly has lowerBound and upperBound but not start and end. For sample, there shouldn't be (0...9).contains(1) and (9...0).contains(1).<br><br>It's the *traversal* of the range by a stride that has a direction, and thus the direction should be specified for a particular stride.<br><br>Similarly, the rationale for completing the range operators is for the uses of range that include but are not limited to just stride. If it were just for stride, then four range operators is three too many.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:33 AM Haravikk <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@haravikk.me">swift-evolution@haravikk.me</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>While I’m in favour of the basic idea I think the operator selection is too complex, and I’m not sure about the need for negative strides. Really all I want are the following:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Monaco"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(0 ... 6).striding(by: 2)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>// [0, 2, 4, 6]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>x from 0 to 6</font></div><div><font face="Monaco"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(0 ..< 6).striding(by: 2)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>// [0, 2, 4]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>x from 0 while <6</font></div><div><font face="Monaco"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(6 ... 0).striding(by: 2)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>// [6, 4, 2, 0]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>x from 6 to 0</font></div><div><font face="Monaco"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(6 ..> 0).striding(by: 2)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>// [6, 4, 2]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>x from 6 while >0</font></div><div><br></div><div>Everything else should be coverable either by flipping the order, or using .reverse(). The main advantage is that there’s only one new operator to clarify the 6 ..> 0 case, though you could always just reuse the existing operator if you just interpret it as “x from 6 to, but not including, 0"</div><div><br></div><div>I dunno, I just don’t think that introducing tons of new operators is going to simplify things, and could lead to way more mistakes in practice; the only mistake above would be putting the indices in the wrong order and accidentally reversing the result.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I’m against negative strides; while they could be useful for convenience (avoid the need for .reverse or flipping values) I’m just not sure that it makes sense. To me a stride is a distance, thus absolute, what matters is the direction of the range. Naturally we’d need ranges with a direction, but with collections requiring it to be in a particular order (or ignoring it and flipping where necessary).</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Apr 2016, at 19:37, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Draft here: <a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307</a> Feedback solicited, both positive and negative. <div>We've also got a related proposal about expanding ranges, which you can look at here (<a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/af92c541a0fb69fce1b7aaf8374a5aa9" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/erica/af92c541a0fb69fce1b7aaf8374a5aa9</a>)</div><div> but we want to float this one first.<div><br></div><div>Thanks, -- E</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Proposal: <a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307/edit" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">SE-XXXX</a></li><li>Author(s): <a href="https://github.com/xwu" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Xiaodi Wu</a>, <a href="http://github.com/pyrtsa" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Pyry Jahkola</a>, <a href="http://github.com/natecook1000" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Nate Cook</a>, <a href="http://github.com/erica" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Erica Sadun</a></li><li>Status: TBD</li><li>Review manager: TBD</li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307#introduction" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Introduction</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We propose to introduce a <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">striding(by:)</code> method on the revised 3.0 <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Range</code> type.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This proposal was discussed on the Swift Evolution list in the <a href="http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution&query=Feature+proposal%3A+Range+operator+with+step" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Feature proposal: Range operator with step</a> thread. (Direct <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/12801/focus=13051" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">link</a> to original thread)</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307#motivation" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Motivation</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Updating <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Range</code> for Swift 3 offers a window of opportunity to simultaneously improve strides.</p><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Under current Swift 3 plans, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">n.stride(to:/through:, by:)</code> will be replaced with a standalone <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">stride(from:, to:/through:, by:)</code> function. We propose to replace this change with a method on ranges. Using a method reduces overall API surface area compared to free functions.</p></li><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">In its current incarnation, the standalone stride function uses confusing semantics. The current <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">to</code> implementation returns values in <em>[<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">start</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">end</code>)</em> and will never reach or get <em>to</em> <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">end</code>. The current <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">through</code> implementation returns values in <em>[<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">start</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">end</code>]</em>. It may never reach <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">end</code> and certainly never goes <em>through</em> that value. Our proposed method introduces simple, expected semantics that can be extended to both countable and continuous ranges, and to open and closed intervals (both half-open and fully-open).</p></li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307#detail-design" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Detail Design</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">striding(by:)</code> method is called on ranges. When used with a positive step size, the count starts from the lower bound. With a negative step size, the count starts from the upper bound. These bounds apply regardless of whether they are inclusive or exclusive. </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The following examples should cover all corner cases and include possible cases should Swift 3 introduce a full complement of open and closed ranges. The syntax for non-canonical range types is not fixed and can be discussed under separate cover.</p><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">(0 ... 9).striding(by: 2) == [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
(0 ..< 9).striding(by: 2) == [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
(0 <.. 9).striding(by: 2) == [2, 4, 6, 8]
(0 <.< 9).striding(by: 2) == [2, 4, 6, 8]
(0 ... 9).striding(by: 3) == [0, 3, 6, 9]
(0 ..< 9).striding(by: 3) == [0, 3, 6]
(0 <.. 9).striding(by: 3) == [3, 6, 9]
(0 <.< 9).striding(by: 3) == [3, 6]
(0 ... 9).striding(by: -2) == [9, 7, 5, 3, 1]
(0 ..< 9).striding(by: -2) == [7, 5, 3, 1]
(0 <.. 9).striding(by: -2) == [9, 7, 5, 3, 1]
(0 <.< 9).striding(by: -2) == [7, 5, 3, 1]
(0 ... 9).striding(by: -3) == [9, 6, 3, 0]
(0 ..< 9).striding(by: -3) == [6, 3, 0]
(0 <.. 9).striding(by: -3) == [9, 6, 3]
(0 <.< 9).striding(by: -3) == [6, 3]
</code></pre><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To reverse a stride, call <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">reverse()</code> on the results:</p><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">(0 ... 9).striding(by: 2).reverse() == [8, 6, 4, 2, 0]
</code></pre><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We note that striding by 0 should be always be a precondition failure.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307#alternatives-considered" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Alternatives Considered</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">During the on-list discussion, we considered various scenarios that took closed/inclusive bounds into account or excluded open bounds for starting values. For example, we might have prohibited scenarios where multiple interpretations of an intended behavior might exist: is <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">(0 ..< 9).striding(by: -2)</code> a precondition failure? We settled on the simplest, most straight-forward implementation involving the fewest compiler warnings and the lowest likelihood of precondition failures. We subscribe to the "Dave Abrahams Philosophy": excessive special casing and warning scenarios more likely indicates bad language design than bad user comprehension.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307#future-directions" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Future Directions</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We intend to follow up with an expanded operator vocabulary that includes fully open ranges (<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><.<</code>), fully closed ranges (<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">...</code>) and both half open ranges (<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><..</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">..<</code>). These will support the full vocabulary laid out in the Detail Design section.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Upon adoption, the Swift community may consider expanding this approach to collection indices, for example:</p><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">let a = [8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9]
for e in a.striding(by: 3) {
print(e) // 8, then 5, then 9
}
</code></pre><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Striding offers a fundamental operation over collections. The <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/13936" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">consistent approach introduced in this proposal</a> helps support the extension of stride semantics to collections.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/a51a981ee0352235204692affa959307#acknowlegements" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Acknowlegements</h2><div style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-bottom:0px!important">Thanks, Dave Abrahams, Matthew Judge</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>_______________________________________________<br>swift-evolution mailing list<br><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>