On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:46:20PM +0000, bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > H. S. Teoh: > > >I implemented this before, but it got rejected because people > >insisted that it must return a range of Tuple, but Tuple is defined > >in Phobos and druntime can't have dependencies on Phobos. :-( > > > >Maybe I'll take another shot at this, since this question keeps > >coming up. > > One possible solution: have a hidden but documented runtime function > that yields 2-item structs, and add a "std.range.byPairs" range and a > "std.range.pairs" function to Phobos that yield the tuples (byPairs > could use a cast to convert the runtime struct to the Phobos tuple). [...]
That's exactly what I plan to do. :-) T -- Let's call it an accidental feature. -- Larry Wall
