Language Idea #6892: in array ops, enable mixing slices and random access ranges

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 09:02:46 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 02:14:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> It's already possible, with only very slightly worse 
>> aesthetics:
>>
> [Good stuff]
>
> We can do better than that, though:
>
> [More good stuff]

The problem in your sample is that you turn a range into a new 
slice with .array (which is "alias this" also), and this 
allocates.

Meta's solution brings slices into the range world instead 
(rather than ranges to array ops like originally proposed).