std.experimental.collection.functional.slist

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/19/2015 11:37 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 05:27 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/19/15 8:01 AM, "Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?=
>> <kuettler at gmail.com>" wrote:
>>> If opAssign is allowed, a major point of functional data structures is
>>> lost. Client code is so much better if rebinding is off the table.
>>
>> I have the same instinct but not enough rationale. What would be an
>> example in favor of the argument?
>
> I think he is just arguing for immutable by default. The obvious
> counter-argument is: Show me the implementation of the
> 'length(T)(SList!T)' function for SList!T with disabled opAssign.

Bad example, you'd just use the range, I guess. :o)
Append?