On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:57 -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> Secondly, even if the expression is quoted, I find it to be extremely
> poor practice to overload an operator with two completely different
> meanings. What's more, intervals in particular are generally useful
> objects, and it would be a disaster to have a syntax for them that
> only worked in quoted contexts (not to mention the problem with
> re-evaluation).
I agree. I now think x=a:b is too confusing. Any suggestions for
an interval syntax?
The step could go in a separate option; for instance:
step=0.1 (same for both variables), step=[0.1,0.5] (different steps
for the two variables).
Jaime