How to define an interator to provide array like behaviour in a class?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 10/17/2012 09:58 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 > On 2012-10-17 17:45, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 >
 >> Well, what would you expect? Ranges are consumed when you iterate over
 >> them.
 >> So, if an container is a range, it will be consumed when you iterate
 >> over it.
 >> That's the way that it _has_ to work given how ranges work, and that's
 >> why you
 >> overload opSlice to return a range which is iterated over rather than
 >> making
 >> the container itself a range.
 >
 > How does this work with built-in arrays?

Array is a separate concept than slice; a slice provides access to the 
elements of an array. Arrays are containers that are owned by the 
runtime, slices are ranges over their elements. Only the slices are 
consumed.

Ali