On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:44 PM, <colintbow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any way to build a range that corresponds to the mathematical set > (-Inf, Inf)? I had a look at the source code in range.jl (which is very > readable!) and it doesn't appear that any of the Range types is suitable to > this task, e.g. StepRange doesn't take Float64 inputs, UnitRange(-Inf, Inf) > returns the range (-Inf, NaN) since the constructor returns > convert(T,start+floor(stop-start)) for the stop value (I'm presuming for > good reasons that I'm not smart enough to understand), and FloatRange needs > concepts like step, len, and divisor that aren't well defined in this > context.
A Range is not a interval but rather a series of equally spaced numbers so a range with `Inf` as start/end is basically meaningless. You should probably find another datastructure. > > Cheers, > > Colin > >
