• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Oct 19 2009

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

 Paradoxically this seems to be conducive to subtle efficiency issues. 
 For example, consider:
 
 int[new] a;
 ...
 a = [1, 2, 3];
 
 What should that do?


a = new Appender!int([1,2,3]);

What you describe is more like StringBuilder, and, yes, things like that
require full-blown API.