Totally rework the Range class. Now the range is from [start, end)

Totally rework the Range class.  Now the range is from [start, end)
to be consistent with the way that the stl works.  It also makes
lots of other stuff easier.  (Maybe those guys were smart?)
Overload the various comparison operators so that you can test
for overlapping of ranges, etc.

base/range.hh:
    Totally rework the Range class.  Now the range is from [start, end)
    to be consistent with the way that the stl works.  It also makes
    lots of other stuff easier.  (Maybe those guys were smart?)
    Overload the various comparison operators so that you can test
    for overlapping of ranges, etc.

    make parse function private and offer operator= instead
    isValid -> valid
    and for you erik, I add comments
test/Makefile:
    add range.o
test/rangetest.cc:
    better tests

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