[ruby-core:94476] [Ruby master Bug#16114] Naming of "beginless range"

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Issue #16114 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


This shows that there are only two real problems in computer science:

- Giving things proper names
- Documenting code after the code has been written
- Off by one errors

:P

From the candidates, I somewhat like mrkn's suggestion here:

lower-unbounded range

I am not sure if it is an ideal candidate, but to me it conveys
a similar meaning as "beginless", in that it refers to the 
"lower" area of a range - well, the part where it all begins. :P

(You can also use left/right, but I think if we only compare
lower/upper to left/right, to me lower/upper makes a bit more 
sense than left/right, within this context.)

Note that I find "beginningless" to be a very clumsy word as well.
Obviously that word exists (example: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beginningless)
but I find it ... awkward.

I do not have any real preference either way so, to be completely honest,
I am with mame here - I don't think it is that important, at the least not
that I would dwell that much thought on it. Thinking about good names is
often quite difficult - just look at HashWithIndifferentAccess.

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Bug #16114: Naming of "beginless range"
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16114#change-80911

* Author: pwim (Paul McMahon)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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#14799 introduces a "beginless range" to complement the already existing "endless range".  However, "beginless" isn't an existing word in English. Since the term for something without a beginning is "beginingless", I'd propose renaming "beginless range" to "beginningless range". 



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