Ranges

This package exists to support more general Ranges for Julia 0.5. This package is not necessary on later Julia versions due to JuliaLang/julia#18777.

LinSpace

Currently this package contains just one range, LinSpace. This is a different implementation than the one in Julia proper; its main advantage is that it supports any type supporting "linear interpolation,"

x = (1-t)*a + t*b

Here, t is a number between 0 and 1, and a and b are the endpoints of the range. While a and b might be numbers, this supports any type for which * and + return an object of the same type as a and b. While this formula can be evaluated for any t, a LinSpace also encodes a length n and can be evaluated only for indexes i = 1, 2, ..., n (for which t = (i-1)/(n-1)).

The interface is the same as for all other Ranges. Aside from indexing and iteration, the main functions are Ranges.linspace (to construct the object) and step (to extract the step between adjacent values).

Note that the LinSpace type is not equivalent to the version of LinSpace present in Julia 0.6.