Phobos uses opSlice and opDollar without checking for it

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On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 06:07:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> At this point, generic code should just never use opDollar 
> unless it specifically tests for it, and usually, there's 
> really no reason to do that rather than just using length at 
> this point, much as it's far more aesthetically pleasing to use 
> $. But ranges really should support $ just like arrays do, so 
> the current state of things is definitely annoying.

The most common uses are [$..$] and [x..$]. I think those should 
simply be fixed to take(0) and drop(x) from the range primitives. 
They are as aesthetically pleasing, generic for any ranges, and 
efficient for arrays.