On Mon, Sep 17 2012, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com> writes:
>>> IMO this is totally unintuitive and not how the range should work.
>>> date:foo..bar should return messages whose date >= foo and < bar. So
>>> for instance date:november..yesterday should return messages whose date
>>> is > 2012/11/01 00:00:00 and < 2012/09/12 00:00:00. So to get
>>> yesterdays messages one would do: date:yesterday..today.
>
> On Thu, Sep 13 2012, David Bremner wrote:
>> I don't find ranges being half-open by default to be very
>> intuitive. Perhaps I don't program in python enough.
>
> Perhaps C than: ?for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i)? is the standard idiom and the
> end range is open.
>
> Let's take a look at:
>
> date:2012/01/01..2012/01/01 + 1 day
>
> in my opinion, that should give results from the first of January only,
> since ?+ 1 day? indicates in a way how long user want the period to be.
>
> I think it's also easier to pragmatically create ranges. For instance,
> let's say you want to create ranges for each week, you'd end up with:
>
> date:2012/01/02..2012/01/09 ## 2012w01
> date:2012/01/09..2012/01/16 ## 2012w02
> date:2012/01/16..2012/01/23 ## 2012w03
Ok, these matches with ISO Week...
> Notice how the opening date of a range matches the closing date of
> the previous date.
2012/01/02 is monday
2012/01/09 is monday.
For me
date:2012/01/02..2012/01/08 ## 2012w01
would be more intuitive in this context.
for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i) loops through 0 - 9.
for (i = 1; i <= 10; ++i) loops through 1 - 10.
python -c 'for f in range(5): print f' prints 0 - 4
perl -le 'for (1..5) { print $_ }' prints 1 - 5
... these does not clarify, but confuses these intuitions :D
>
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Tomi
