proposal: OOP wrapper for ranges for easy interfacing

[Brad Anderson]

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 04:59:12 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> Interfacing with ranges across libraries can be tricky due to 
> heavy use of
> templates. Example cases are when interfacing between D and C++ 
> or when
> using D shared libraries, that we would like to distribute with 
> di
> interface files.
>
> I'd like to have something like the following in phobos (see 
> code below).
> The code makes an OOP wrapper for ranges, allowing one to use 
> separate
> compilation model without having to pull in all the source code 
> if we want
> to use the library with arbitrary ranges of a given element 
> type (see
> unittest below). This could also greatly benefit compilation 
> time since it
> enables us to use thin di interface files.
>

Have you seen InputRange and inputRangeObject in std.range?

http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#.InputRange
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#inputRangeObject