contiguous ranges

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Vlad Levenfeld:

> a ContiguousRange would be any RandomAccessRange which has a 
> member called ptr which supports a dereferencing operator * 
> that yields an ElementType!R. This notion is useful for 
> functions which might otherwise perform an element-by-element 
> transfer to an OutputRange via put, instead perform an 
> optimized batch transfer directly to a ContiguousRange via ptr.

Increasing the number of basic ranges will lead to a little more 
complexity, but this seems a nice idea.

Bye,
bearophile