Rust-like collect in D

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, October 06, 2016 16:56:26 Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 16:14:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> > If an entity (i.e. container) implements OutputRange API, you
> > can already do it:
> >
> > 0.iota(n).copy(container);
>
> Ahh, not quite what I wanted... I want to mimic the functional
> style Rust provides, where the `container` is constructed inline
> and does not have to be declared separately. Is there a way to do
> this, or do we need something similar to `collect` in Phobos?
> Something like
>
> import std.container.array : Array;
>
> 0.iota(n).collect!Array

That makes it sound like you just need the container to have a constructor
that takes a range - either that or a helper function which constructs the
container from a range (e.g. std.container.rbTree.redBlackTree is a helper
function for constructing a RedBlackTree from a range).

- Jonathan M Davis