this looks neat at first sight but I think that there are other ways to achieve the same thing without making ngRepeat syntax more complicated and with it making the implementation also more complicated.

Take a look at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11873570/angularjs-for-loop-with-numbers-ranges

@IgorMinar That looks interesting but feels a little bit weird; official filters we've got so far are either a bijection or a surjection, but the linked solution makes it look like it's creating a range of something out of nowhere. Would look better if it's called something like append or push or fill.

So to summarize, a generalized filter solution would give us n in [] | fill: from: to, which IMHO is less concise than the n in [from..to] this PR offers. If you're okay with that then I can make a separate PR with the new filter.

what about a solution like this: ng-repeat="n in range(5,15)" doesn't that work sufficiently well for you?

I was able to cut the number of $eval from 3 to 1, but if it is possible to pass the local into $watchCollection directly then the last one can be ditched as well to gain better performance. I can open a separate issue and work on it if you think this is a good idea.

Any way to re-trigger the Travis building process? It failed but it's not my fault 💩

ERROR [launcher]: internet explorer 9 (Windows 2008) on SauceLabs failed 2 times (timeout). Giving up.

@gsklee just do commit --amend and push ORIGIN BRANCH -f

@matsko that worked - thanks 😸