propagate first and last for OffsetRanges #258
                
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firstandlastto the parent forOffsetArray(::AbstractRange). On masterstepwas propagated anyway as this is not defined for abstractarrays in general. The current change is an optimization as it gets around the need to index into the array to find the first element.The
firstandlastelements for ranges are often obtained by explicitly accessing fields, so I don't think that it's possible to obtain these for wrapper types by using traits.I'm not sure if this provides an immediate real-world performance benefit, so perhaps we may leave this open for now. I had created this keeping something like JuliaLang/julia#41945 in mind. If
iterateuses traits then we may require a rapid evaluation offirstandlastelements forOffsetRanges to be as performant as ranges.