Re: Why are static arrays not ranges?

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 20:33:10 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
import std.range;
void main() {
    int[6] a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];

    pragma(msg, isInputRange!(typeof(a)));
    pragma(msg, isForwardRange!(typeof(a)));
    pragma(msg, isRandomAccessRange!(typeof(a)));
}

$ dmd -run test.d
false
false
false

That's ridiculous. Do I have to wrap my static arrays in 
structs to get range primitives?

Is there an actual reason for this?

For an element of explanation see my answer at a similar question 
here:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/xdhuberedpjuxydbw...@forum.dlang.org