Add support for Groovy-4-style range expressions #4077

Job	Run time
build-and-verify (2.5, 8, ubuntu-latest)	6m 10s
build-and-verify (2.5, 11, ubuntu-latest)	4m 54s
build-and-verify (3.0, 8, ubuntu-latest)	6m 40s
build-and-verify (3.0, 11, ubuntu-latest)	5m 20s
build-and-verify (3.0, 17, ubuntu-latest)	4m 25s
build-and-verify (3.0, 21, ubuntu-latest)	3m 38s
build-and-verify (3.0, 22, ubuntu-latest)	3m 53s
build-and-verify (4.0, 8, ubuntu-latest)	8m 20s
build-and-verify (4.0, 11, ubuntu-latest)	4m 58s
build-and-verify (4.0, 17, ubuntu-latest)	4m 32s
build-and-verify (4.0, 21, ubuntu-latest)	3m 52s
build-and-verify (4.0, 22, ubuntu-latest)	4m 5s
build-and-verify (2.5, 8, windows-latest)	6m 32s
build-and-verify (3.0, 8, windows-latest)	6m 45s
build-and-verify (4.0, 8, windows-latest)	7m 21s
build-and-verify (2.5, 8, macos-latest)	3m 47s
build-and-verify (3.0, 8, macos-latest)	3m 54s
build-and-verify (4.0, 8, macos-latest)	4m 1s
	1h 33m 7s

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