Hello; currently in our application, at some locat...

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[Michael de Kaste]

Hello; currently in our application, at some locations, we use a custom 'range' class with bounds like:

date1..null // Range.BoundedLeft<LocalDateTime>
null..date2 // Range.BoundedRight<LocalDateTime>
date1..date2 // Range.Closed<LocalDateTime>

For this we made an operator fun on the rangeTo operator for comparable classes. This works fine for things like dates and custom classes. But if I want to use the rangeTo on an Int, there is no way for me to set the precedence of my own utility function over that of the construction of an IntRange, is this fixable? I know I can import my custom rangeTo as somethingElse , but I'd like to be able to do the following:

val range: Range.Closed = 1..3

[ephemient]

not sure this is a good idea. the compiler has built-in knowledge of the default rangeTo operator so that

x in y..z
for (x in y..z)

do not construct range instances but are instead compiled as simple range checks and loops

[Michael de Kaste]

I guess, if working with numbers specifically, I should make an extension function for nonnullable to nonnullable ranges.
since 1..null works fine

[Adam S]

probably the easiest way is to create some extensions, so you can easily convert to your custom ‘range’ classes

fun main() {
  val range: Range.Closed<Int> = (1..5).closed
}

val <T: Comparable<T>> ClosedRange<T>.closed
  get() = Range.Closed(this)

[Michael de Kaste]

sadly, unless I make a compiler plugin, I can't make this exhaustive, but its a start

when(date){
    in null..someRange -> "thing1"
    in someRange..someOtherRange -> "thing2"
    in someOtherRange..null -> "thing3"
}

[ephemient]

in this case you can make it exhaustive and less repetitive

when {
    date < someRange -> "thing1"
    date <= someOtherRange -> "thing2"
    else -> "thing3"
}