RFC on range design for D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Benji Smith wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I put together a short document for the range design. I definitely 
>> missed about a million things and have been imprecise about another 
>> million, so feedback would be highly appreciated. See:
>>
>> http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~aalexand/d/tmp/std_range.html
> 
> Just thinking off the top of my head...
> 
> How well would the proposal support a producer/consumer work queue, or a 
> signal/slot implementation?
> 
> A work-queue consumer would view the queue as an infinite range with no 
> end, but the producer would view that same queue as an infinite range 
> with no beginning. And, conceivably, you could have "conduits" between 
> the producer and consumer that would view that same queue as having 
> neither a beginning nor an end.
> 
> I'm making no judgment about whether the proposal supports or doesn't 
> support that kind of model. I'm just putting the idea out there for 
> consideration.

I think it's great to bring the idea up for discussion. The current 
design does not cater to such uses yet.

Andrei