[Feature Request] Range arithmetic

[joshichaitanya3]

As the recent issues point out, the Ranges are tricky with floats as spacing. It'd be nice to be able to do arithmetic on Ranges, so that we can have Ranges generated from integers and multiplied by the required spacing later on. Something like this

// Go from 0 to 1 in N+1 steps
var N = 10
var range = 0..N // I think this is always exact?
range = range/N // This operation, if possible, would give a Range going from 0 to 1 exactly in N+1 steps, without worrying about floating point.

Alternatively or additionally, we could have a different kind of Range object going from a to b in a fixed number of steps (like NumPy's linspace), may be with the notation a..b::N or something?

[joshichaitanya3]

I just realized that the above example isn't the greatest, since we can just do 0..1:(1/(N+1)) and it works, but there are other spots where it could be more useful.

[ConduitDan]

If you want to do this you can do it with Matrix(List(range))/N

We might want to consider a constructor of type Matrix(range) (and Array(range)) to avoid the call to list first?

[eihabhala]

Nice

[eihabhala]

I am seeing something Amazing with this language. But the Question is How to Build Packages For It appreciated if You Guys Can Point Me With Just That :)

[softmattertheory]

@eihabhala Thanks for the feedback! We are working on detailed information for developers, including how to build packages for our upcoming release.

[eihabhala]

Thanks 💐