• Andrej Mitrovic (19/19) Jun 22 2013 I just learned today that passing Appender by value does not have the

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

I just learned today that passing Appender by value does not have the
semantics I thought it would:

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import std.array;
import std.stdio;

void call(Appender!(int[]) buffer)
{
    buffer.put(1);
}

void main()
{
    Appender!(int[]) buffer;
    writeln(buffer.data);  // writes [], it's empty
}
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Is this a bug? If not, shouldn't we introduce a disabled copy
constructor to force passing Appender by ref to functions to avoid
this type of user bug?

I can't see how the current behavior is useful to anyone.