Narrow string is not a random access range

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/23/12 11:36 AM, mist wrote:
> Was thinking on this topic after seeing this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13014999/cannot-slice-taker-from-std-range-in-d
>
> Still can't understand rationale here. Why native slicing / random
> access is allowed for narrow strings, but trait explicitly negates this?

Historical mistake.

Andrei