Ranged Sets and Ranges Expected Behavior

[ata-nas]

Story Form

As a Block Node Developer
I want to have a determined and final decision on the behavior of the ranged sets and ranges that we use
So that I can develop based on the agreed upon expected behavior

Technical Notes

• based on this comment thread, let's discuss and explore the few mentioned topics:
  • should ranges be inclusive vs exclusive
  • should ranges support -1 -> -1 (which is problematic and throws exceptions, and is indeed the thing that lead to this issues) and the notion of an "empty" range
  • can we consider that a ranged set is empty when it has no ranges inside of it (null) rather than it having an "empty" range
• based on discussion/agreement, some changes might need to be made in the code base