Why splitter() doesn't work?

[Mehrdad]

On Sunday, 14 October 2012 at 22:58:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Sunday, October 14, 2012 22:13:28 Mehrdad wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I think that might not be such a bad idea. It should be
>> possible to slice infinite ranges too, after all.
>
> There's actually some discussion on making it so that you 
> can't. The main problem is that a slice can't be the same type 
> as the original for an infinite range, which tends to screw 
> with things. But if infinite ranges end up losing the ability 
> to be sliced, then other, similar functionality would have to 
> be added, because you _do_ need to be able to take chunks of an 
> infinite range like that.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis



How are you supposed to split a range that doesn't support 
slicing though?

You can't just call array() because it might be too big to be 
reasonable for fitting it into memory...