Ranges and Take

[Jacob via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 02:16:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 05, 2016 00:10:39 Jacob via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> Having access to iterators would solve the problem here I 
>> think. But everything is ranges and that wouldn't entirely 
>> fit. For a linked list though, you can create a range from a 
>> single iterator. The implementation of DList's Range is pretty 
>> much two iterators. Oh well, have to implement my own anyways 
>> I guess, since DList uses the garbage collector.
>
> A replacement for std.container is in the works, but who knows 
> when that will be done (or whether the result will really be 
> what you want anyway). In the interim, I'd recommend checking 
> out
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/emsi_containers
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Well I also need it to support noncopyable types. Which right now 
isInputRange (and other ranges) doesn't allow if "front" returns 
a reference. I found that it was already posted here a year or 
two back so I guess it isn't a priority to fix.