Hi D
I have bit of code that was tripping me up. I need to parse
small fields out of a big binary read, and it looks like some
operations just can't be composed when it comes to
using templates. So this works:
```d
import std.bitmanip, std.system;
ubyte[8192] data;
ubyte[] temp = data[4..6];
ushort us = temp.read!(ushort, Endian.bigEndian);
// intentionally provided the default byte order for readability
```
But this doesn't work:
```d
import std.bitmanip, std.system;
ubyte[8192] data;
ushort us = data[4..6].read!(ushort, Endian.bigEndian);
```
The reasons for this are probably old hat for seasoned D
programmers by this is really confusing for newbies.
Is there a better way to handle this instead of making a bunch of
temporary variables that I don't care about? Matlab has this
behavior too, statements that should be composable aren't, and it
drives me crazy since Java and Python don't seem to suffer from
this problem near a much.
