Rust-like collect in D

[Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 17:22:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 16:56:26 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> Is there a way to do this, or do we need something similar to 
>> `collect` in Phobos? Something like
>>
>> import std.container.array : Array;
>>
>> 0.iota(n).collect!Array
>
> You mean semantics like this?
>
> Container collect(Container, Range) (Range r)
>     if(isOutputRange!Container)
> {
>     Container container;
>     r.copy(container);
>     return container;
> }

Yes, along with inference of element type of the container.