Does anyone care if Tuple.slice() returns by ref?

[Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 03:16:48 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
> (If we go with Saurabh Das' approach, we'll deprecate the old 
> slice() by ref method, so it there won't be any *silent* 
> breakage either way.)

Can we keep the old by ref slice() method, but add guards to 
disallow cases where the alignment is off?