Can we get rid of opApply?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"dsimcha" wrote
> foreach(char[] s; array) vs.
> foreach(char[] s; IntegersAsString(array))
>
> I think a lot of stuff is going to need some kind of extra struct like 
> this to
> make it work.  When this is the case, it needs to be possible to have a 
> default
> iteration method that "just works."  The opDot overload, I guess, could do 
> this,
> but it's a rather blunt tool, since then you can't use opDot for other 
> stuff and
> you'd have to forward _everything_ to the opDot object.

opRange doesn't help here.  array is a (non-extendable) primitive, so the 
compiler needs to be told how to convert integers to strings.

Even opApply wouldn't get you here.

I actually think something cool would be a toRange struct:

foreach(s; toRange!(string)(array))

Which would be like the to! template.

-Steve