On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 12:31:05 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 12:17:58 UTC, Ellie Harper wrote:
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there something
special required to call Appender.clear? When I attempt even
just a simple use I am getting compile errors relating to
`template object.clear`.
From the documentation for Appender:
Note
clear is disabled for immutable or const element types, due to
the possibility that Appender might overwrite immutable data.
Since string is immutable(char)[], clear() is simply not
available for appender!string.
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Simen
Isn't this wrong, though? Appender controls the memory it
references. It could just choose to allocate non-immutable memory
internally. As long as any const data put into the appender is
*returned* as const, there is no chance of immutable memory being
overwritten.
