From eaa1f04c59ed71e5ed437bd7ab16cc65d5e31af2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Werder <mauro_lc@runbox.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 13:41:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added StepRangeLen

Fixes #374
---
 README.md        | 4 ++++
 src/Compat.jl    | 6 ++++++
 test/runtests.jl | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8228fafef..ed110bc23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ Currently, the `@compat` macro supports the following syntaxes:
 
 * `bytestring` has been replaced in most cases with additional `String` construction methods; for 0.4 compatibility, the usage involves replacing `bytestring(args...)` with `Compat.String(args...)`. However, for converting a `Ptr{UInt8}` to a string, use the new `unsafe_string(...)` method to make a copy or `unsafe_wrap(String, ...)` to avoid a copy.
 
+* In 0.6, `FloatRange` was deprecated and superseded by `StepRangeLen`
+  [#18777]. Pre 0.6, Compat defines `const FloatRange = StepRangeLen`
+  and exports this.
+
 ## New functions, macros, and methods
 
 * `@views` takes an expression and converts all slices to views ([#20164]), while
diff --git a/src/Compat.jl b/src/Compat.jl
index 699d77004..c6e3405a6 100644
--- a/src/Compat.jl
+++ b/src/Compat.jl
@@ -1535,4 +1535,10 @@ include("to-be-deprecated.jl")
 # https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/21746
 const macros_have_sourceloc = VERSION >= v"0.7-" && length(:(@test).args) == 2
 
+# https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/18777
+if VERSION < v"0.6.0-dev.2376"
+    const StepRangeLen = FloatRange
+    export StepRangeLen
+end
+
 end # module Compat
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 116780b9a..d01fafcf4 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1895,4 +1895,6 @@ end
 
 include("to-be-deprecated.jl")
 
+@test isa(1.0:5, StepRangeLen)
+
 nothing