OutputRanges and slicing/save()

[monarch_dodra]

On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 23:14:31 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> In particular, arguably, input ranges that are also output 
> ranges are confusing,  since rather than "growing as you add 
> items to their tip (what you'd want)", they instead "shrink as 
> you overwrite their front, until they are empty/full".

To add to that, it's *kind* of like an input/output stream, that 
you can only write to, after you have read it...