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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: Inclusive or exclusive array
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 08:02:33 -0000 (UTC)
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Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
> What I *did* mean was
>      - (inclusive start, exclusive end) is most common
>      - (inclusive start, length) is seen, less commonly
>      - (inclusive start, inclusive end) is seen, but is rare

Just curious: on what analysis is this based? 
  - some complete classification of all range-accepting JSL methods?
  - some complete classification of those JSL methods you actually use?
  - gut feeling based on the JSL methods you actually use? ;-)

I'm not disputing it, but there might be different results based 
on different weighing of importance of each method, and whether one
only considers integral ranges or also float,Date,... ranges.

PS: my own gut feeling was that ranges in Java "from/length" would be
  more common for integral, while in C++ "from/excl-to" would be more
  common - as in C+++ integral ranges are often just a special case of
  iterator-based ranges.