std.range's put on arrays needs to change

[WebFreak001]

On Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 10:58:48 UTC, Kostiantyn Tokar wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 10:29:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 06:33:13AM +0000, Kostiantyn Tokar via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>>> What should I do if I want to preallocate a slice and copy 
>>> some input range into it? I wouldn't be able to use 
>>> `std.algorithm.copy` for this simple purpose, because it uses 
>>> `put` internally.
>>
>> Just take a slice of it with [].
>>
>>
>> T
>
> I'm talking about suggestion. IIUC, with suggested change `put` 
> will be appending to the slice. And it wouldn't work with 
> `@nogc`.

no, the suggestion is only to deprecate the `put` for slices and 
disallow it completely with that function name, to avoid errors 
in code bases.

Appending to the slice would not work because of the `@nogc` 
change and also because it's a backwards-incompatible breaking 
change.