Ranges

Bloke · 2019-11-21 10:22:17

Good find, Pete. I actually quite like the square-bracket notation, even though it is up to three extra chars.

12, 14, 5, [42, 48], 73, [-1,-6]

Encapsulated, and permits an optional space after the comma as well, if you have the capacity in your field to use it (although the lack of space does make it more visually distinct). Plus it’s fairly easy to parse.

Is it intuitive enough? Thoughts?

Last edited by Bloke (2019-11-21 10:26:20)

Bloke · 2019-11-21 10:23:25

gaekwad wrote #320172:

I must be half asleep. Did you sneak in a ninja edit or did I miss that last sentence?

Hehe, no ninja edit (for a change!)

Köffee? :)

gaekwad · 2019-11-21 10:26:10

+1 for square brackets, but I’m not in a position to know where negative ranges would be used on my fleet, so it’s a heavy pencil +1. Looks clean, too.

gaekwad · 2019-11-21 10:28:12

Bloke wrote #320174:

Köffee? :)

I’m a bit light on sleep in recent days, it must be said. I don’t think the chocolate-covered coffee beans I munched a few minutes ago were the smartest idea, but they’re getting the job done!

phiw13 · 2019-11-21 11:44:04

Bloke wrote #320168:

Just playing devil’s advocate here, but have we got any concrete use cases in mind where we, or someone using Textpattern, might legitimately use ranges with negative numbers?

Interesting question (more from a theoretical POV), because I don’t think it would be frequent in everyday usage. Hmm, maybe as the result of a <txp:evaluate /> calculation? I don’t know, just thinking aloud.

I kinda like the [ ] suggestion that came later in the thread. Still quite readable and understandable.

Last edited by phiw13 (2019-11-21 11:44:40)

etc · 2019-11-21 11:59:55

gaekwad wrote #320169:

Out of curiosity: what’s a real-world example of a negative range in Textpattern terms? Bullet point is fine, I’m clearly missing something obvious.

Negative values are rare animals in txp word, but do exist. For example, shift attribute of <txp:older /> can be a range of negative values:

<txp:older link shift="-3,-2,-1">
    Page <txp:yield item="page" />
</txp:older>

will output three oldest pages (4.8 only). But I agree, that’s an exotic usage and large negative ranges are unlikely to be ever needed. So we could stay with the standard 1-9 notation and add -9- -1-ish patterns parsing as Stef suggests just in case.

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#11 2019-11-21 10:22:17

Re: Ranges

#12 2019-11-21 10:23:25

Re: Ranges

gaekwad wrote #320172:

#13 2019-11-21 10:26:10

Re: Ranges

#14 2019-11-21 10:28:12

Re: Ranges

Bloke wrote #320174:

#15 2019-11-21 11:44:04

Re: Ranges

Bloke wrote #320168:

#16 2019-11-21 11:59:55

Re: Ranges

gaekwad wrote #320169:

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