My thoughts & experiences with D so far, as a novice D coder

[Chris Cain]

On Thursday, 28 March 2013 at 20:24:50 UTC, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
> To follow up with some new woes I'm currently struggling with:
> I'm storing some various values in an ubyte array. I discovered 
> that it's probably std.bitmanip I wish to use in order to 
> "convert" i.e. an int to 4 bytes (although I went first to 
> std.conv looking for this feature).
> --snip--

I am completely confused as to why you're doing what you are 
doing ... std.conv does work (and in the case you've listed, is 
unnecessary anyway). Try this:

import std.stdio, std.conv;

void main() {
     ubyte[] buffer;
     buffer ~= 5; // Simple solution
     buffer ~= to!ubyte(6); // Proper usage of "to"
     writeln(buffer);
}

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Now, for performance reasons you might want to use appender (or 
buffer.reserve(n), if you happen to know how many items you'll be 
storing), but the simplest thing works.