My thoughts & experiences with D so far, as a novice D coder

[Vidar Wahlberg]

On Thursday, 28 March 2013 at 21:16:32 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> I am completely confused as to why you're doing what you are 
> doing ... std.conv does work (and in the case you've listed, is 
> unnecessary anyway). Try this:
>
> import std.stdio, std.conv;
>
> void main() {
>     ubyte[] buffer;
>     buffer ~= 5; // Simple solution
>     buffer ~= to!ubyte(6); // Proper usage of "to"
>     writeln(buffer);
> }

This is not what I'm trying to achieve.
This gives me an array with two elements, [5, 6]. What I want is 
to append the 4 bytes that make up one integer value, which using 
your values means buffer should hold a total of 8 bytes (two 
integers).

H. S. Teoh answered well on how this can be achieved, although my 
feedback was not really meant as a question of "how is this 
done?", more of "why is this done like this, couldn't it be done 
much easier?".