• bearophile (13/13) Feb 07 2013 [I don't know what's the right group to post this. Maybe the main
• Jonathan M Davis (8/22) Feb 07 2013 Appender and Array are trying to do two completely different things. App...

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

[I don't know what's the right group to post this. Maybe the main 
D group is better.]

This is a recently closed enhancement request about adding the 
"~=" operator and more to Appender:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4287

I have discussed about the idea of also adding a length attribute 
to an Appender. Thinking about it, isn't it possible and a good 
idea to deprecate the Phobos Appender, improve std.array.Array 
appending performance (if necessary), and add a "data" attribute 
to Array (if necessary), to replace the use cases of Appender 
with Array?

Bye,
bearophile

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Friday, February 08, 2013 03:24:14 bearophile wrote:
 [I don't know what's the right group to post this. Maybe the main
 D group is better.]
 
 This is a recently closed enhancement request about adding the
 "~=" operator and more to Appender:
 
 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4287
 
 I have discussed about the idea of also adding a length attribute
 to an Appender. Thinking about it, isn't it possible and a good
 idea to deprecate the Phobos Appender, improve std.array.Array
 appending performance (if necessary), and add a "data" attribute
 to Array (if necessary), to replace the use cases of Appender
 with Array?

Appender and Array are trying to do two completely different things. Appender 
is specifically for making appending to an array efficient. It's _not_ a 
container. Array, on the other hand, is actually a container, and it's not 
necessarily optimized specifically for appending. Not to mention, Appender is a 
wrapper for an array. If I wanted to use Array, I'd use Array, but if I used 
Appender, I'm obviously interested in using a built-in array, not Array.

- Jonathan M Davis