ante

Creates an exclusive range with a Latin keyword.

Syntax: <expression> ante <expression>

Category

range

Related

• usque
• ‥

Examples

examples/corpus/ante/ante.fab (canonical · keyword)

Creates an exclusive range with a Latin keyword.

# ante — exclusive upper bound for range iteration
#
# itera ab <initium> ante <finis> <var> { … }
#
# GRAMMAR:
#   iterStmt :← 'itera' 'ab' expr 'ante' expr binding '{' stmt* '}'
#
# EXPECTED OUTPUT:
#   none

incipit {
    # i = 0, 1, 2, 3 (stops before 4)
    itera ab 0 ante 4 fixum i {
        nota i
    }
}

Expected output:

0
1
2
3