> On 24 Mar 2016, at 08:54, David Knothe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I do not think an operator like ..+ is intuitive nor will it make code easier 
> to read or write.

While I agree that ..+ isn’t the nicest operator choice, there may be other 
possibilities. It would be interesting if we could use regular letters as 
operators, as you could actually just declare your by or step keyword yourself 
in that way, but it could be specific to strideable ranges, though it may not 
be worth the chaos of everyone then declaring custom keywords everywhere.

Personally I don’t see the issue of requiring parenthesis to use (1 ..< 
10).by(2), ultimately we’re still just iterating over a sequence, all we want 
is control over how a range’s sequence is generated, rather than it just using 
a stride of 1. A keyword is certainly prettier, but I think it’s better that 
developers know that there’s nothing new going on here, and that it’s still 
just a regular sequence like any other, rather than introducing a new structure 
that looks sort of like a new form of loop, but really isn’t.
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