Re: Ranges, constantly frustrating

[Rene Zwanenburg]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 10:10:27 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:

Things like this should "just work"..

File input ...

auto range = input.byLine();
while(!range.empty)
{
  range.popFront();

foreach (i, line; range.take(4)) //Error: cannot infer argument types

  {
    ..etc..
  }
  range.popFront();
}

Tried adding 'int' and 'char[]' or 'auto' .. no dice.

Can someone explain why this fails, and if this is a permanent or temporary limitation of D/MD.

R

foreach (i, line; iota(size_t.max).zip(range.take(4)))
{

}