• Guillaume Piolat (4/4) Jan 04 2016 Can someone produce a _useful_ free function that uses inout?
• Guillaume Piolat (6/10) Jan 04 2016 Adam D. Ruppe answered this on IRC:

Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:

Can someone produce a _useful_ free function that uses inout?

There are useful getters using inout.
There are useless free functions using inout like 
http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/d038012308ed

Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 23:15:22 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
 Can someone produce a _useful_ free function that uses inout?

 There are useful getters using inout.
 There are useless free functions using inout like 
 http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/d038012308ed

Adam D. Ruppe answered this on IRC:

inout(char)[] chomp(inout(char)[] str)
{
     return if(str.length && str[$-1] == '\n') str[0 .. $-1] : str;
}