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Re: Inclusive or exclusive array

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On 2019-07-30 20:41, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:
> 
>> On 7/30/2019 12:24 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>> I am writing the following method:
>>>      Long[] getFibonacciArray(int from, int to);
>>>
>>> What is more logical: an inclusive or an exclusive array?
>>>
>>> Should:
>>>      getFibonacciArray(12, 12)
>>>
>>> return 'Long[1] { 144 }', or 'Long[0] {  }'?
>>
>>     There are precedents for both, the latter being noticeably
>> more common.  There is also precedent for
>>
>> Long[12] {144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597,
>>           2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657}
>>
>> ... with a likely change of parameter name.
>>
>>     Citations:
>>
>> 	java.lang.String::substring(int, int)
>> 	java.util.stream.IntStream::rangeClosed(int, int)
>> 	java.lang.String::new(char[], int, int)
> 
> I was later also thinking about the third, but for the moment I go for
> exclusive.

To be clear, what Eric was trying to say, was that likely the most
common idiom of the sort, in Java, is:

[zero-based-index-inclusive, *length*]

... which largely alleviates the very issue you're referring to.

-- 
DF.

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Inclusive or exclusive array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2019-07-30 18:24 +0200
  Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-30 12:52 -0400
    Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2019-07-30 20:41 +0200
      Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 02:19 +0200
        Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 07:22 -0400
          Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-01 00:44 +0200
          Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-08-01 08:02 +0000
            Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-01 07:47 -0400
              Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-08-01 11:19 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-01 10:04 -0700
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-02 17:51 +0000
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 10:58 -0700
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-03 05:40 +0000
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-08-03 21:32 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 05:04 -0700
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-08-05 19:30 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-01 14:20 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-02 01:15 +0200
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-02 16:17 -0400
    IntStream.rangeClosed()   (was: Re: Inclusive or exclusive array) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-07-31 11:33 +0000
      Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 07:59 -0400
        Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 05:40 -0700
          Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 11:02 -0400
            Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 08:39 -0700
        Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-07-31 16:46 +0000
          Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 10:16 -0700
  Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2019-07-30 23:21 +0200
  Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-07-30 19:43 -0400

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