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

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 07:00:04 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
> 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?

Honestly, I think it will just confuse people if the slice-by-ref 
method only works on some seemingly-random subset of Tuple 
instantiations - especially since the subset that worked would be 
platform dependent.

We should either fix it, or deprecate it.