On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, monarch_dodra wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 18:08:25 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, monarch_dodra wrote: > > > > > One of the advantages is that an infinite range can have random access > > > (meets > > > RA requirements), even though it has no length member (normally, any RA > > > range > > > must have length). > > > > Where did this assertion come from? There's nothing about infinite that > > implies random access in the general case. Consider a circular linked > > list. It's infinite but not random access. > > > > There's a class of infinite functions which are random access, but > > definitely not all. > > Yeah... ergo "can".
Ok. The use of 'can' there is generally a much stronger implication than that read of it. I read it as an implies rather than allows for the possibility, and I'll bet I'm not alone.
