I was finding myself needing a library to check for real-valued interval memberships. This was from writing libraries whose parameters must adhere to these restrictions, such as regularization terms or learning rates.

The API is simple for interval creation and supports the Enumerable protocol when a interval step is defined.

Here’s a sample of the API:

iex> import Exterval
iex> ~I<[1, 10)//2>
[1, 10)//2
iex> ~I<[1, 10)//2> |> Enum.to_list()
[1.0, 3.0, 5.0, 7.0, 9.0]
iex> ~I<[1, 10)//2> |> Enum.reduce(&+/2)
25.0
iex> ~I<[-1, 3)//-0.5> |> Enum.to_list()
[2.5, 2.0, 1.5, 1.0, 0.5, 0.0, -0.5, -1.0
iex> ~I<[1, 10]> |> Enum.count()
:infinity
iex> ~I<[1, 10)//2> |> Enum.count()
4
iex> ~I<[-2,-2]//1.0> |> Enum.count()
1
iex> ~I<[1,2]//0.5> |> Enum.count()
3
iex> ~I<[-2,-1]//0.75> |> Enum.count()
2

iex> 1 in ~I<[1, 10]>
true
iex> 1 in ~I<[1, 10)//2>
true
iex> 3 in ~I<(1, 10)//2>
true

Feedback is much appreciated