@PMario,

Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2018 14:26:11 UTC+1 schrieb PMario:
>
> On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 1:38:33 PM UTC+1, Simon Huber wrote:
>>
>> negative and floating numbers with a certain limitation in accuracy would 
>> also be great
>>
>
> IMO negative numbers can be created with [addprefix[-]]
>

you're right, that works for me 

>
> floating point will be a problem. eg: 0 -> 99.99 will create about 10,000 
> numbers. So users will create endless loops, without being aware. 
> But you could use nested INTs.
>

that'd be ok 

>
> I was thinking about a syntax like: [create[1..100#04]] ... which would 
> mean:
>
> start: 1 .. including 1
> stop: 100 .. including 100
>
> format: #04 means
>  use leading zeros
>  use 4 digits
>
> which would result in 0001 ... 0100 with every number in between
>
> format: 1..100#03 means 001 ... 100
>
> format: 1..100 means 1 ... 100
>
> format: 33..55#03 means 033 ... 055
>
> and so on. 
>

I like this syntax, it would offer pretty good flexibility 

>
> Just some thoughts. No promises.
>

thanks, I can work around this with my own lists but with what you proposed 
I imagine that all kinds of things could be made easier / possible

>
> The problem now is, that "start" stop may be variables. ... like 
> [create<start>..<stop>#<format>] ... which is ugly, complex and the parser 
> can't handle it at the moment.
>

I'd be totally fine with this if the parser could handle it, I'm lacking 
ideas and knowledge tbh to propose something myself at this point
 
Grüße,
Simon

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