On May 18, 2014, at 7:59 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes I know, I was just wondering if that was normal behaviour because it
> looks quite confusing to me.
Personally I find it a natural way of expressing an empty interval. to: is
syntactic sugar for to:by:, and so the default of 1 for the step (the by: arg)
is expected.
I'm dissatisfied however that I can't write $A to: $Z, or 1 to: Infinity
positive (or 1 to: Float inf, ugh).
Eliot (phone)
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Kilon,
>>
>> On May 18, 2014, at 6:32 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > while I was recording my Interval video tutorial I observed that Interval
>> > does not behave as I would expect . Even though (1 to: 100) works as I
>> > expect, (1 to: -100) does not. In case of ( 1 to: -100) it created the
>> > interval object but it does not populate it with the numbers.
>> >
>>
>> You have to say
>> 1 to: -100 by: -1
>>
>> > I would expect it to populate the interval with the numbers or at least
>> > fail with an error. This does not look to me like normal behaviour.
>> >
>> > (-100 to: 1) on the other hand work as expected.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts on this issue ?
>
