[#43120] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6124][Open] What is the purpose of "fake" gems in Ruby — Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@...>

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[#43142] Questions about thread performance (with benchmark included) — Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>

A while ago I've written an article entitled "How Nokogiri and JRuby

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[#43148] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6126][Open] Introduce yes/no constants aliases for true/false — Egor Homakov <homakov@...>

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[#43238] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6130][Open] inspect using to_s is pain — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>

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[#43313] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6150][Open] add Enumerable#grep_v — Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@...>

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[#43325] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6154][Open] Eliminate extending WaitReadable/Writable at runtime — Charles Nutter <headius@...>

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[#43334] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6155][Open] Enumerable::Lazy#flat_map raises an exception when an element does not respond to #each — Dan Kubb <dan.kubb@...>

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[#43370] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6166][Open] Enumerator::Lazy#pinch — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>

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[#43373] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6168][Open] Segfault in OpenSSL bindings — Nguma Abojo <git.email.address@...>

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[#43454] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6174][Open] Fix collision of ConditionVariable#wait timeout and #signal (+ other cosmetic changes) — "funny_falcon (Yura Sokolov)" <funny.falcon@...>

10 messages 2012/03/18

[#43497] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6179][Open] File::pos broken in Windows 1.9.3p125 — "jmthomas (Jason Thomas)" <jmthomas@...>

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[#43502] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6180][Open] to_b for converting objects to a boolean value — "AaronLasseigne (Aaron Lasseigne)" <aaron.lasseigne@...>

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[#43529] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6183][Open] Enumerator::Lazy performance issue — "gregolsen (Innokenty Mikhailov)" <anotheroneman@...>

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[#43543] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6184][Open] [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.9.3p165 (2012-03-18 revision 35078) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0] — "Gebor (Pierre-Henry Frohring)" <frohring.pierrehenry@...>

8 messages 2012/03/21

[#43672] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6201][Open] do_something then return :special_case (include "then" operator) — "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" <rr.rosas@...>

12 messages 2012/03/26

[#43678] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6203][Open] Array#values_at does not handle ranges with end index past the end of the array — "ferrous26 (Mark Rada)" <markrada26@...>

15 messages 2012/03/26

[#43794] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6216][Open] SystemStackError backtraces should not be reduced to one line — "postmodern (Hal Brodigan)" <postmodern.mod3@...>

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[#43814] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6219][Open] Return value of Hash#store — "MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)" <Martin.Bosslet@...>

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[#43858] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6222][Open] Use ++ to connect statements — "gcao (Guoliang Cao)" <gcao99@...>

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[#43904] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6225][Open] Hash#+ — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>

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[#43951] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6228][Open] [mingw] Errno::EBADF in ruby/test_io.rb on ruby_1_9_3 — "jonforums (Jon Forums)" <redmine@...>

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[#43996] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6236][Open] WEBrick::HTTPServer swallows Exception — "regularfry (Alex Young)" <alex@...>

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[ruby-core:43449] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5534] Redefine Range class and introduce RelativeNumeric and RelativeRange

From: "alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2012-03-18 13:36:07 UTC
List: ruby-core #43449
Issue #5534 has been updated by alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov).


More of my crazy ideas.  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to write:

a, b = 0.5, 10.5
(a..b).each(Integer) do { |n| puts n }
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Feature #5534: Redefine Range class and introduce RelativeNumeric and RelativeRange
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5534#change-24916

Author: alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 


I started by commenting on Feature #4541, but ended up with proposing a new feature myself.

I suggest to redefine the behavior of Range class so that all empty ranges be equal:

(2..1) == (1..-1) and (2..1) == (1...1) and (2..1) == ('z'..'a') # => true

In other fords, ranges `r1` and `r2` should be equal if and only if `r1.include?` and `r2.include?` give identical results for all inputs.  (Why is it not `includes?` by the way?)  Thus Range would simply be a way to store certain infinite sets.

This change will result in not being able to slice an array `a` from beginning and from the end simultaneously with `a[1..-2]`. To resolve this, i propose to introduce `RelativeNumeric` and `RelativeRange` classes.

Each `RelativeNumeric` would be a `Numeric` with an "anchor", which is an arbitrary symbol.  For example:

3.from(:bottom)  # would return a "relative" 3 with "anchor" :bottom

One can define shortcuts `#from_bottom` for `#from(:bottom)` and `#from_top` for `#from_top`.

A `RelativeRange` is a range with relative bounds.  If bounds of a relative range r are relative to the same anchor and the range is seen to be empty, it should be equal to *the* empty relative range with this anchor.  For example:

(3.from(:center)..2.from(:center)) == (0.from(:center)...0.from(:center)) # => true

Now, to do what is currently done by `a[1..-2]`, one can redefine `Array#slice` to use instead:

a[1.from_bottom..(-1).from_top]

What do you think?



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