stream interfaces - with ranges

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 18 May 2012 12:02:16 -0400, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 15:57:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> So?  So can a range of T[].
>>
>> I'm not getting your point yet...
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Well you mentioned "There isn't an OS primitive that reads a file  
> descriptor into an e.g. linked list, anything other than a slice would  
> go through a translation.", but I was just pointing out that there is,  
> and that it doesn't go through any translation. I guess you /can/ call  
> it a "range of T[]", but then, you can *also* call a linked list "a  
> range of T[]"... where each T[] has one element. That's not very useful  
> tho, since their nature is kinda different..

No, by range of T[] I mean this:

static assert(isInputRange!Range && is(ElementType!Range == T[]));

-Steve