[RFC] Add an operator for ranges to D. Pros and cons?

[Peter Alexander]

On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 at 13:07:13 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> Therefore I would like to know what do you think about the idea 
> of having additional operator exclusively made for ranges? This 
> operator would make it obvious that data are "streamed" (lack 
> of better term) among ranges.
>
> The first name I could come up with was "opArrow" but "opData" 
> could also be okay, and operator would be either "~>" or "->".
>
> This would give us an obvious, unambiguous statement:
>
> Console.in ~> filter1(param) ~> fooRange ~> Console.out;
> // Console is an imaginary class/struct
>
> Or:
> arr ~> odd ~> random ~> randomOdd;

I'm confused. So does this new operator just do the same thing as 
dot, but only work with ranges? Or does it have additional useful 
semantics?