Should this work?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/10/14 7:23 AM, Manu wrote:
> This is what I've done. I'm just surprised that such an obvious function
> doesn't exist, and suspect I was just retarded at phobos again.
> Having a function that does this is kinda important to simplify lots of
> expressions that otherwise need to be broken out across a bunch of lines.

I doubt it simplifies a lot.

> Does nobody see this coming up in their code? I have it basically every
> time I use ranges, and as usual, surprised others don't feel the same way.

If it would have been frequent, it would have been a common request. 
Apparently it isn't. Even before ranges there wasn't a function that got 
you s[0] and also assigned s = s[1 .. $] in one shot, and that wasn't 
asked for either.


Andrei