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

[Jesse Phillips]

On Friday, 29 March 2013 at 02:39:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Only having append would actually be problematic, as there
> are cases where you really do need write and not append. And 
> neither of them
> have been in Phobos for all that long (peek, read, write, and 
> append were
> added in 2.060).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Ah, I was just going by the docs when I wrote this. I apparently 
got it wrong. write doesn't using indexing it uses opSliceAssign 
(which isn't in its constraints). I'm also not familiar with the 
use cases and there are definitely reasons to stray from 
idiomatic D.