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:: The task is really to consolidate not ranges but '''lists''' of ranges. (A 'consolidated range' is just the range itself, without any change in the dimension of its extent). |
:: The task is really to consolidate not ranges but '''lists''' of ranges. (A 'consolidated range' is just the range itself, without any change in the dimension of its extent). |
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:: Given that we are really talking about lists of ranges, an empty list is clearly well-defined, and we can certainly consolidate it with another list of ranges. (It evaporates in the process). [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 01:32, 31 March 2019 (UTC) |
:: Given that we are really talking about lists of ranges, an empty list is clearly well-defined, and we can certainly consolidate it with another list of ranges. (It evaporates in the process). [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 01:32, 31 March 2019 (UTC) |
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===Perl 6 oddity=== |
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::: I would also like to know what the Perl 6 "ranges" of [2] and [5,9,8] mean. Maybe [] => not a range, discard/ignore, else length!=2 ==> [min(),max()]? Either that should become part of the task description, or the Perl 6 entry should either explain or cull them. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 20:04, 30 March 2019 (UTC) |
::: I would also like to know what the Perl 6 "ranges" of [2] and [5,9,8] mean. Maybe [] => not a range, discard/ignore, else length!=2 ==> [min(),max()]? Either that should become part of the task description, or the Perl 6 entry should either explain or cull them. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 20:04, 30 March 2019 (UTC) |