On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 07:07:44PM +0000, Mason McGill wrote: > On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 17:41:16 UTC, bearophile wrote: > >Mason McGill: > > > >>http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP58 > > > >Seems nice. > > Thanks. There are a few awkward parts to maintain compatibility, > but that seems to be the only way to go. > > >But the syntax a..b..step is not very nice. > > Do you not like the order? Because it was actually a..step..b (like > MATLAB/Julia, not like Python). Or do you not like the "verbosity" > of all those dots (a:step:b would be better)? Or is it the > readability issues if floating point literals were mixed in there? [...]
Not speaking for bearophile here, but I don't like using .. to mean two different things (endpoints vs. step). T -- Study gravitation, it's a field with a lot of potential.
