Splitter.opSlice(), ranges and const strings

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:13:20 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:


> The issue is not so much that the range is const or immutable, but that  
> splitter uses IFTI to determine the parameter type.  If splitter could  
> use the tail-* version of itself when its argument was fully const or  
> fully immutable, then it would work.

Also see a proposal I made to fix IFTI to allow directing its type  
determinations for literals (could probably be expanded to implicit  
conversions too):

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4998

-Steve