contiguous ranges

[Pasqui23 via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 11:20:13 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet 
wrote:

>
> From this discussion I understand you mainly want to be able to 
> BitBlt ranges
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit
>
> BitBlt covers multi dimensional arrays as well (2D textures) 
> and might convey the semantic you want better than Contiguous 
> (too fine grained ?).
>
Effectively bit blit range is a better name than contiguous 
range,but as I have said this and range castable to T[] are not 
mutually exclusive concepts.
> Also the blitting term is already used in D (post-blit 
> constructor).
Unfotunately the post-blit constructor covers only the copy of 
structures(like smart pointers)and is inadequate for ranges(it 
would be surprising if
auto cp=r;
would copy the entire range and not the position in the container 
only).