[Grace-core] Names for the […] literal

[Kim Bruce]

I actually like “a run” the best, but am afraid it would confuse people with the run of a program.  Thus I would go with “series”.  After all the stuff generated by .. is a simple arithmetic series.

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Andrew P Black <black at cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
> 
> Other ideas for naming the (thing generated by the)  […] constructor:
> 
> a run — captures the idea of sequentiality, but not indexability
> a series — similar, but has implications of arithmetic or geometric series, ie, computed by a rule
> a lineup — well, the items are indeed in a line
> a chain — perhaps implies linked storage, so probably less good than any of the above.
> 
> 	Andrew
> 
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