On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 22:39:01 UTC, Ulrich Küttler wrote:
Yes, this is an explanation. Thanks. So the argument being C++
customs. Now that you mention it, this seems to be the argument
in Eric's D4128 paper, too.
I was hoping for a somewhat deeper reasoning. Out of curiously,
I am still trying to grasp all the implications. Ranges are
hard.
Another one is "odd number of iterators algorithms"
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4128.html#appendix-3-d-ranges-and-algorithmic-complexity
D’s choice of algorithmic basis operations is inherently less
efficient than C++’s.