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On 13-Jun-14 02:36, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Range should have been a proper type.

That would have been nice.

> A'Range should have been a primitive
> array interface operation.

Doesn't its status as a attribute, automatically accessible to any 
array-type, put it in a similar category? (IOW, what's wrong with it 
being an attribute?)