On Wednesday, 20 July 2016 at 16:04:50 UTC, pineapple wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 July 2016 at 16:03:27 UTC, pineapple wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 July 2016 at 13:33:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
There is no auto-decoding going on here, as char[] and
wchar[] are rejected outright since they are not considered
random access ranges.
They are considered random access ranges by my ranges library,
because they are treated as arrays of characters and not as
unicode strings.
On second thought that's not even relevant - the linked-to
module performs an out-of-place shuffle and so does not even
require the input range to have random access.
Pardon my being scatterbrained (and there not being an "edit
post" function) - you're referring to phobos not considering
char[] and wchar[] to have random access? The reason they are not
considered to have random access is because they are auto-decoded
by other functions that handle them, and the auto-decoding makes
random access inefficient. Not because shuffleRandom itself
auto-decodes them.
