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From: G. B. <nonlegitur@nmhp.invalid>
Subject: Re: syntaxic exploration
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:23:05 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2017-12-21T19:23:05+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p1h1mp$72c$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p1fn8e$iud$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk

uRandy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Mehdi Saada" <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I thought X'Range was strictly equivalent to X'First..X'Last ?
> 
> 'Range is rather a wart in the language; it can only be used in a few 
> specific places.

So, *for* is a wart, too, then. ;-)
It, too, can only be used in a few specific places.
But, together with an object’s Range
attribute, we get an unequivocal statement that
something applies to everything in range.
The range does not need to be programmed by 
hand; that would be verbose. I like to reserve
‘Last to one-off specification of subranges.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-21 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-20 17:28 syntaxic exploration Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 17:32 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 20:08   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-20 22:18     ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 22:45       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-21  7:24         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-21  7:44           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-21  7:21   ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-21 16:24     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-12-22  5:01       ` Robert Eachus
2017-12-22 21:15         ` Simon Clubley
2017-12-22 22:11           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-22 22:51             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-23  7:15               ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 16:23             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-12-24  3:37               ` Robert Eachus
2017-12-24 13:39                 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-24 13:32               ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-25 13:40                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-12-25 14:42                   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-25 17:03                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-25 18:27                     ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-25 20:12                     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-12-20 20:05 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-20 22:48 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 23:39   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-21  0:35 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-21  7:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-21 19:23   ` G. B. [this message]
2017-12-21 23:46   ` bj.mooremr
2017-12-22 23:45     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-22 13:31 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-22 18:00   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-22 18:27   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-22 20:25     ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-22 22:33       ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23  1:47 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23  7:17   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 11:23     ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 11:39       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 12:09         ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 12:12 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 12:16   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 13:04     ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 14:02       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 14:46         ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 15:03           ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 22:11             ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-24  0:55               ` Mehdi Saada
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