Quick, simple TypeScript range function (with overloads, of course).
```
export function range(end: number): IterableIterator<number>;
export function range(start: number, end: number): IterableIterator<number>;
export function range(start: number, end: number, step: number):
IterableIterator<number>;
export function* range(start: number, end?: number, step?: number):
IterableIterator<number> {
// overload #1
if (end === undefined) {
[start, end, step] = [0, start, 1];
}
// overload #2
if (step === undefined) {
step = Math.sign(end - start);
}
// ensure we have the appropriate types
if (typeof start !== 'number' || typeof end !== 'number' || typeof step
!== 'number') {
throw new TypeError('all parameters must be of type number');
}
while ((start < end && step > 0) || (start > end && step < 0)) {
yield start;
start += step;
}
}
```
IMO, we should focus on building up a JavaScript standard library that has
tons of useful utilities like this, rather than continue to add methods
onto namespaces. Perhaps that's just me, though.
Jacob Pratt
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:33 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I end up writing a range function in virtually every project I use, so
> yeah, I think this is worthwhile.
>
> My own preferences, based on Python precedence:
>
> Number.range(end) === Number.range(0, end, 1)
> Number.range(start, end) === Number.range(start, end, Math.sign(end-start))
> Number.range(start, end, step) => {
> if start < end && step > 0: yield all (start + k*step), for k from 0
> to infinity, less than end
> elif start > end && step < 0: yield all (start + k*step), for k from
> 0 to infinity, greater than end
> else: yield nothing
> }
>
> So:
> * [...Number.range(5)] evaluates to [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
> * [...Number.range(0)] evaluates to []
> * [...Number.range(-5)] evaluates to []
> * [...Number.range(1, -3)] evaluates to [1, 0, -1, -2]
> * [...Number.range(-3, 1)] evaluates to [-3, -2, -1, 0]
> * [...Number.range(1, 1)] evaluates to []
> * [...Number.range(0, 10, 5)] evaluates to [0, 5]
> * [...Number.range(0, 10, -5)] evaluates to []
>
> ~TJ
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