Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 13:08:05 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> Also, `byCodeUnit` and `byCodePoint` would probably be better 
> names than `raw` and `decode`, to much the already existing 
> `byGrapheme` in std.uni.

There already is a std.uni.byCodePoint. It is a higher order 
range that accepts ranges of graphemes and ranges of code points 
(such as strings).

`byCodeUnit` is essentially std.string.representation.