Is there a way to create non-contiguous range with series notation? Like 1..3, 10..13
to produce [1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 13]
?
Enum.concat(1..3, 10..13)
By definition:
Ranges represent a sequence of zero, one or many, ascending or descending integers
with a common difference called step.
So you cannot have a Range where the step varies, i.e. between 2…3 is a step of 1, while 3…10 is a step of 7.
If you want to make a List, then I would agree with @wojtekmach.
And you can even make it lazy!
Stream.concat(1..3, 10..113)
These are elegant! Thank you!
In both examples the “step” is 1.
The “step” is the difference between the current and the next element of a range.
So 1..10//2
will contain 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9.
I didn’t mean to imply that those two examples are Ranges… I just used an ellipsis between them out of habit from prose and pure math. I wanted to say that between 2 and 3 (as in 1..3
) is a step of 1, while between 3 and 10 (as in the imaginary “range” 1..3,10..13
from the original question) would have a step of 7, and therefore the definition of a Range would be violated.
Sorry for the lack of clarity in my first post.