[phobos] Problem with definition of isInfinite(Range)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 09/06/2010 06:42 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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> So, perhaps I'll go and refactor my code so that infinity is strictly kept to
> intervals and ranges and not time points or time durations. It would certainly
> reduce the number of runtime checks and reduce the amount of code. Of course,
> making those changes will make it take that much longer to complete the
> date/time module, but better later than poorly designed.

Infinity must be known during compilation. Otherwise RandomAccessRange 
must be a refinement of BidirectionalAccessRange, and bidirectional 
access is obviously not supported by infinite range. That closes the 
door to infinite random access ranges, of which there are many.

Andrei