>That the data he chose can be expressed as a range is utterly inconsequential It could be, but we don't know that. And that's exactly my point. The syntax he

>That the data he chose can be expressed as a range is utterly inconsequential It could be, but we don't know that. And that's exactly my point. The syntax he uses forces us to think and even speculate about that. So for the particular sequence he chose for his example, it would be less ambiguous to generate the range algorithmically.