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Issues with custom ranges Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (19 Jul 2020 20:57 UTC)
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Re: Issues with custom ranges Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (20 Jul 2020 00:55 UTC)
Re: Issues with custom ranges Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (20 Jul 2020 02:06 UTC)
Re: Issues with custom ranges John Cowan (21 Jul 2020 00:18 UTC)

Re: Issues with custom ranges Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 20 Jul 2020 02:06 UTC

On 2020-07-19 20:55 -0400, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
>
>     (indexer lower-bound n) = (indexer (indexer lower-bound n) 0)
>
> If a range's indexer satisfies this law, we can freely create
> subranges by moving the lower bound about.  It seems to be a
> fundamental property of sequences ...

By "a fundamental property of sequences", I mean "of indexer functions
which generate a sequence".  The fundamental property of *sequences*
is that a choice of lower bound doesn't change the elements in the
underlying collection.

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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe  <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>