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[lang] [PATCH] NumberRange - adds inclusive and exclusive end points





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-06-27 06:35 -------
In response to Stephen's comment, we have nothing like this in [math]. 

I am -0 on this change, however, for the following reasons.
First, as Stephen points out, the change would affect serialization. Second,
while the extension makes sense logically, I am not sure that is has tremendous
practical value.  For integer ranges, (a,b) is no different from [a+1, b-1] --
i.e., being able to specify "inclusivity" does not really buy you anything other
than convenience (at the expense of a more complicated API and some overhead). 
For floating point ranges, counting on the difference between (a,b) and [a,b]
would in most cases I can imagine be dangerous -- so here again, the extension
does not really buy you anything.  

I may of course be missing some important and valuable use cases, in which case
I will happily move to +0 once I know what they are.

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