GSoC: Containers and Ranges

[Christian Hotz-Behofsits]

Hi everyone!

I applied to GSoC 2011 to enhance D's container landscape.  For that
reason I read a lot about D and it's given containers, because I used
it once, but not quite extensive and there is one "speciality" I don't
understand yet - ranges. All in all the documentation is really good,
but I wasn't able to find adequate descriptions or suitable examples -
Can you help me ?

Are ranges only conjugate parts of the given container? Or like the
C++ iterators? Are there comparable structs in other languages?

even if I don't get the chance - I take it serious :-)

I know this page (but it wasn't helpful):
http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_container.html#Range