Using input ranges with std.regex?

[MrSmith via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 21:43:11 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> On 25.04.2012 23:08, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Does std.regex support input ranges to match()? Or do I need 
>> to convert
>> to string first?
>>
>
> For now, yes you have to convert them. Any random access range 
> of code units should do the trick but stringish template 
> constraints might kill that.
>
> I plan to extend this eventually. The problematic point is that 
> match internally is delimited by integer offsets (indices). 
> Forward ranges technically can work (the match then will return 
> something like take(..., n);) with a bunch of extra .save 
> calls. Input ranges can't be used at all.

Is there any progress on this thing?