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Enum member std.range.primitives.isRandomAccessRange

Returns true if R is a random-access range. A random-access range is a bidirectional range that also offers the primitive opIndex, OR an infinite forward range that offers opIndex. In either case, the range must either offer length or be infinite. The following code should compile for any random-access range.

enum isRandomAccessRange(R) = is(typeof(lvalueOf!R[1]) == ElementType!R) && !(isAutodecodableString!R && !isAggregateType!R) && isForwardRange!R && (isBidirectionalRange!R || isInfinite!R) && (hasLength!R || isInfinite!R) && (isInfinite!R || !is(typeof(lvalueOf!R[__dollar - 1])) || is(typeof(lvalueOf!R[__dollar - 1]) == ElementType!R));
enum isRandomAccessRange(R, E) = .isRandomAccessRange!R && isQualifierConvertible!(ElementType!R, E);

The semantics of a random-access range (not checkable during compilation) are assumed to be the following (r is an object of type R):

  • r.opIndex(n) returns a reference to the nth element in the range.

Although char[] and wchar[] (as well as their qualified versions including string and wstring) are arrays, isRandomAccessRange yields false for them because they use variable-length encodings (UTF-8 and UTF-16 respectively). These types are bidirectional ranges only.

See Also

The header of std.range for tutorials on ranges.

Parameters

NameDescription
R type to be tested
E if present, the elements of the range must be qualifier-convertible to this type

Returns

true if R is a random-access range (possibly with element type E), false if not

Example

import std.traits : isAggregateType, isAutodecodableString;

alias R = int[];

// range is finite and bidirectional or infinite and forward.
static assert(isBidirectionalRange!R ||
              isForwardRange!R && isInfinite!R);

R r = [0,1];
auto e = r[1]; // can index
auto f = r.front;
static assert(is(typeof(e) == typeof(f))); // same type for indexed and front
static assert(!(isAutodecodableString!R && !isAggregateType!R)); // narrow strings cannot be indexed as ranges
static assert(hasLength!R || isInfinite!R); // must have length or be infinite

// $ must work as it does with arrays if opIndex works with $
static if (is(typeof(r[$])))
{
    static assert(is(typeof(f) == typeof(r[$])));

    // $ - 1 doesn't make sense with infinite ranges but needs to work
    // with finite ones.
    static if (!isInfinite!R)
        static assert(is(typeof(f) == typeof(r[$ - 1])));
}

// Checking the element type
static assert( isRandomAccessRange!(int[], const int));
static assert(!isRandomAccessRange!(int[], immutable int));

static assert(!isRandomAccessRange!(const(int)[], int));
static assert( isRandomAccessRange!(const(int)[], const int));
static assert(!isRandomAccessRange!(const(int)[], immutable int));

static assert(!isRandomAccessRange!(immutable(int)[], int));
static assert( isRandomAccessRange!(immutable(int)[], const int));
static assert( isRandomAccessRange!(immutable(int)[], immutable int));

Authors

Andrei Alexandrescu, David Simcha, and Jonathan M Davis. Credit for some of the ideas in building this module goes to Leonardo Maffi.

License

Boost License 1.0.