AdventOfCode reminded me of functionality I have w...
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Michael de Kaste
12/15/2022, 8:19 AMAdventOfCode reminded me of functionality I have wanted in my enterprise software: Multiranges.
Or at least the concept of having ranges with functionality for combining them. I want to be able to do Range.overlap(range: Range) and get a new range with just the part that overlaps. Or a multirange that can collect ranges and return the minimal multirange that contains all ranges. e.g.
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1..3 + 2..4 + 6..8 = Multirange(1..4, 6..8)Michael de Kaste
12/15/2022, 8:20 AMpsql has similar functionality that I already use, but on the kotlin side I need way more work to make this work
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jw
12/15/2022, 2:12 PMThis isn't a language feature but one of #stdlib. Also that operation is typically called an "intersection" because you're describing set theory.
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