[phobos] array appending changes to druntime

[Steve Schveighoffer]

Yes, it's me.

Through discussion with Sean, the changes will be added (I will post it within the next couple days).  I need to recreate the patch with the newest druntime directory structure.  It's my fault it's not in yet, Sean told me he would add it late january, but I was on vacation  the first week of Feb, and the last week has been very busy for me.

There is still the issue of the special functions that append a dchar to a char or wchar array.  I don't have the typeinfo passed in so I cannot tell whether the array is shared or not.  However, I think it's better to add what I have now and worry about fixing shared stuff later (I'm pretty sure shared is not done exactly correct right now).  I haven't had time to read the latest installment of tdpl, but I'm confident that we can solve the problems of shared array appending later.  Fixing the stomping problem is important to get out there for people to play with.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>; Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 11:05:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] array appending changes to druntime
> 
> Steve was working on this. Steve, did you commit your changes to phobos? (I 
> think Steve is on the list, but I'm adding him just to be sure.)
> 
> Andrei
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
> > This TDPL book example still fails:
> > 
> > unittest {
> > int[] a = [0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70];
> > auto b = a[4 .. $];
> > a = a[0 .. 4];
> > // At this point a and b are adjacent
> > a ~= [0, 0, 0, 0];
> > assert(b == [40, 50, 60, 70]); // passes; a got reallocated
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > because the agreed upon array append changes to druntime haven't been done 
> yet. I can't recall who was doing that, or indeed if anyone had taken 
> responsibility for getting it done.
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