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Claude Warren commented on LANG-1387: ------------------------------------- It is not a collection in an of itself. a Span has not contents. It might be useful with a collection or on top of an array but it does not have the contents. Is there a reason not to put it in lang? Claude > Add Span interfaces to handle checks for overlaps, containment, equality, etc. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: LANG-1387 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1387 > Project: Commons Lang > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: lang.*, lang.math.* > Affects Versions: 3.7 > Reporter: Claude Warren > Priority: Minor > > This is a contribution of a span class as discussed on the mailing list. > The classes are int and long based and can: > # determine if points are within the span. > # determine if one span contains another span > # determine if two spans overlap > # do not have to have 0 (zero) as the index origin. > # determine the length of the span > # determine the last position in the span. > # determine the first position in the span. > Changes to Number Utils required to detect underflow and overflow > calculations. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)