byCodePoint for a range of chars

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 19:58:17 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 17:59:09 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> Given a range with element type char, what's the best way of 
>> iterating over it by code-point, without filling an array 
>> first?
>>
>> Related to this: What's the status of std.utf and 
>> std.encoding? The comments in std.encoding say that some 
>> functions supersede their std.utf counterparts.
>
> FWI, Walter just wrote "byDchar", that does what you want:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2043
>
> It's about to be merged.

Sweet! I was vaguely aware of this but didn't know what the 
progress was. Thanks :)

In the mean time I hand-rolled my own, but I'm sure Walter's is 
infinitely better so I'll swap over ASAP.