Using map instead of iteration

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:57 +0100, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
[ . . . ]
> You should use std.range.iota(0,numberOfThreads) instead of
> 0..numberOfThreads. Having a..b return a general interval range
> has been proposed numerous times, but nothing has been implemented as
> of yet.

Thanks for this pointer.

> If you like syntactic sugar, this is likely the closest you'll get at
> this point:
> 
> import std.range;
> 
> struct _ {
>      auto opSlice(B,E)(B begin, E end) {
>          return iota(begin, end);
>      }
> }
> 
> // Example:
> map!foo( _[0..numberOfThreads] );

Interesting.  I am not sure I would do this, instead just going with the
explicit iota.

It would be better though if x..y (and x..<y) were standard parts of the
syntax. 

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