> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:40 PM, kdex <[email protected]> wrote: >> On that note, it might make more sense to add range literals.
On 26 February 2017 at 20:50, T.J. Crowder <[email protected]> wrote: > That was my thought as well -- or at least, ranges if not range literals. (A > simple `Range` is trivial to implement, but I'd rather see something > ubiquitous.) I don't see any active, inactive, stage 0, or finished > proposals for ranges (they have been discussed: > https://esdiscuss.org/topic/ranges). > > John, to my mind it'd be great to see this same great level of > attention-to-detail, research, etc., devoted to ranges. I think iterable > numbers would be too limited to be all that useful (although a subset of > your proposal would be really simple to add). But I'm just a random guy on > the list, no idea if the people who actually matter would be interested in a > range proposal. Ranges have been put to good use in other > languages/environments (some mentioned in your proposal), so... I'd like to bring us back a decade for a while: Lars T Hansen 2007/07/16 13:33 >Multi-dimensional arrays > >Consider matrices of floating-point numbers, which we can type as [][double], >allocate using x = new [][double](5,8), and dereference as x[1][5]. We can >extract subarrays using x[2:4][1:3], maybe (creating a 2×2 matrix). This >should not be important for ES4 but it might be important to make sure we can >consider it for ES5, somehow. And https://web.archive.org/web/20160425221208/http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=discussion:slice_syntax The combining of these two features would be a match made in heaven, and be able to provide Ranges. -- David "liorean" Andersson _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
