Transient ranges

Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 28 10:27:17 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 01:48:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, May 27, 2016 23:42:24 Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> So what about the convention to explicitely declare a 
>> `.transient` enum member on a range, if the front element 
>> value can change?
>
> Honestly, I don't think that supporting transient ranges is 
> worth it.

I have personally wondered if there was a case for a 
TransientRange concept where the only primitives defined are 
`empty` and `front`.

`popFront()` is not defined because the whole point is that every 
single call to `front` will produce a different value.


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