It's unanimous, at least among the three of us posting in this Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3wqt3p/programming_in_d_ebook_is_at_major_retailers_and/cxyqxuz

Something has to be done with the documentation for Phobos functions that involve ranges and templates. The example I gave there is

bool isSameLength(Range1, Range2)(Range1 r1, Range2 r2) if (isInputRange!Range1 && isInputRange!Range2 && !isInfinite!Range1 && !isInfinite!Range2);

Unfortunately, that's less ugly than for a lot of functions. In some circumstances, I can see something like that reminding the author of the function about some details, but it can only confuse anyone else.

There is nothing I can do about this. Who makes these decisions? Can we change it to something useful?

Also, I think the documentation for functions involving ranges needs more "for dummies" examples. Too many of those functions leave the reader not having a clue what to do after calling the function. I know how that can be fixed.

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