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Ranges Without Actual Elements

Explore the concept of ranges in D programming that do not own actual elements but provide access to underlying data. Understand how front can return computed values, how Unicode characters are decoded as ranges, and how you can preserve original data using specialized InputRanges like StudentRange.

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Flexibility of not actually owning elements

The elements of the School objects were actually stored in the students member slices. So, School.front returned a reference to an existing Student object.

One of the powers of ranges is the flexibility of not actually owning elements. For example, front does not need ...