Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 13:51:12 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 16:43:30 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 16:18:06 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
>>> Can we look at some example situations that this will break?
>>
>> Any code that relies on countUntil to count dchar's? Or, to 
>> generalize, almost any code that uses std.algorithm functions 
>> with string?
>
> This would no longer compile, as dchar[] stops being a range. 
> countUntil(range.byCodePoint) would have to be used instead.

Why? There's no reason why dchar[] would stop being a range. It 
will be treated as now, like any other array.