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

[Steve Schveighoffer]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 5:36:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] I think we need to make an emergency release
> 
> I needed Appender to be a reference type for std.format and std.stdio. 
> The  point is to be able to compose a complex stream read into a sequence 
> of  simpler reads. This is possible if you use one Appender throughout, 
> but I  don't see why preclude people from appending output to their own 
> strings.  It's not a difficult to implement feature (my convoluted code 
> notwithstanding), and it's useful. Why decide to not provide  it?

It is a reference type.  There's only one pointer in the struct, that points to 
the GC-allocated private Data struct.  Or maybe I didn't understand you?

-Steve