Complex ranges
While range expressions can be useful, the type checker is unable to deduce the size of nontrivial ranges.
def ints10 = 0..<10
def ints5 = 0..2..<10While the type checker knows that ints10 has 10 elements, ints5
is assigned an “unknown” size. In some cases this does not matter,
but for example, you cannot zip it with another array.
Shape coercions can be used to address
this, but sometimes awkwardly. In most cases it is better to
create a range where the size is obvious to the type checker, and
then massage it to the desired value using map:
def ints5_alternative = map (*2) (0..<5)