Interest in std.algorithm.joiner?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:12:34 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:21:08 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have std.algorithm.splitter which splits a range into components 
>>>> without allocating a new array.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an interest in joiner(), the corresponding function for 
>>>> join() that joins elements of a range in conjunction with a 
>>>> separator without allocating a new array?
>>>  How do you do that?
>>
>> Well joiner would offer an input or in best case a forward range with 
>> the range primitives.
> 
> How do you store all the ranges you joined for future reference without 
> creating an array of those ranges?  With splitter, it's straightforward, 
> there's one range to store.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

It's just one range and one separator.

auto joined = joiner(["Mary", "has"], "\t");
assert(joined.front == 'M');


Andrei