DIP67: Associative Ranges

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:40:50PM +0000, Freddy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 18:04:30 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> >On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 17:36:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
> >Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> >>I've submitted a PR for byPair before, but it was roadblocked by the
> >>fact that people demand that it return std.typecons.Tuple, yet we're
> >>not allowed to import Phobos in druntime. Other than this IMO
> >>nitpicky issue, the code was already all ready to go many moons ago.
> >>
> >>
> >>T
> >
> >Can byPair be implemented in phobos, or does it need to access
> >private/package stuff in druntime?
> 
> I don't see why not,It could be put into std.range and accept a
> generic associative range(which includes the build-in associative
> array).

And how would it be implemented in a way that is stable across AA
implementations?


--T