Should this work?

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 19:57:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/10/14 7:23 AM, Manu wrote:
>> This is what I've done. I'm just surprised that such an 
>> obvious function
>> doesn't exist, and suspect I was just retarded at phobos again.
>> Having a function that does this is kinda important to 
>> simplify lots of
>> expressions that otherwise need to be broken out across a 
>> bunch of lines.
>
> I doubt it simplifies a lot.

A lot, no. Enough to justify its existence, yes. IMHO anyway.

>
>> Does nobody see this coming up in their code? I have it 
>> basically every
>> time I use ranges, and as usual, surprised others don't feel 
>> the same way.
>
> If it would have been frequent, it would have been a common 
> request. Apparently it isn't. Even before ranges there wasn't a 
> function that got you s[0] and also assigned s = s[1 .. $] in 
> one shot, and that wasn't asked for either.

I think anybody who wanted it, like me, just wrote their own 
utility function and moved on.

Atila