[phobos] I think we need to make an emergency release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/25/10 12:48 PDT, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> One very very notable difference from the original appender is it does not take
> a pointer as the parameter.  This means it does not update the original array
> you pass to it (well, it does, but will not modify the length).

I don't think this is good. When you format stuff you do want to append 
the formatted result incrementally to the string.

> Other than that, here is the updated API (with private data shown for an idea of
> how the implementation works):
>
> struct Appender(A : T[], T)
> {
>      private struct Data
>      {
>          size_t capacity;
>          Unqual!(T)[] arr;
>      }
>
>      private Data* _data;

I think this looks good - why not make arr of type pointer to array and 
support append to existing arrays?

> /**
> Construct an appender with a given array.  Note that this does not copy the
> data, but appending to the array will copy the data, since Appender does not
> know if this data has valid data residing after it.  The initial capacity will
> be
> arr.length.
> */
>      this(T[] arr);

Appender was partly created to avoid the issue the comment warns about.


Andrei