• JR (3/3) Jul 24 2014 Is there a big reason why Appender.put doesn't return &this?
• Temtaime (3/3) Jul 24 2014 Offtop
• monarch_dodra (3/6) Jul 24 2014 AFAIK, no reason no. That said, it wouldn't be useable in generic

"JR" <zorael gmail.com> writes:

Is there a big reason why Appender.put doesn't return &this?

http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/bb840e3e349e

It would allow for convenient chaining. :<

"Temtaime" <temtaime gmail.com> writes:

Offtop
It's better to return "this" and have return type "ref auto" i 
think.

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 17:43:36 UTC, JR wrote:
 Is there a big reason why Appender.put doesn't return &this?

 http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/bb840e3e349e

 It would allow for convenient chaining. :<

AFAIK, no reason no. That said, it wouldn't be useable in generic 
code.