On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 11:20:13 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
From this discussion I understand you mainly want to be able to
BitBlt ranges
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit
BitBlt covers multi dimensional arrays as well (2D textures)
and might convey the semantic you want better than Contiguous
(too fine grained ?).
Effectively bit blit range is a better name than contiguous
range,but as I have said this and range castable to T[] are not
mutually exclusive concepts.
Also the blitting term is already used in D (post-blit
constructor).
Unfotunately the post-blit constructor covers only the copy of
structures(like smart pointers)and is inadequate for ranges(it
would be surprising if
auto cp=r;
would copy the entire range and not the position in the container
only).
