foreach over pointers OR foreach that mutates the iterator

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On Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 20:22:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> It only matters if you're trying to define the range primitives 
> for your range as free functions for some reason. Just put them 
> on the type itself and be done with it. The only reason that 
> wouldn't work would be if you weren't in control of the code 
> for the type in question, and I'm inclined to think that 
> turning a type that isn't a range into a range using free 
> functions isn't the best of ideas. You can always wrap the type 
> in another type though if you really want to turn it into a 
> range and can't just because you're dealing with a pointer.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Strings use std.range.primitives.