• =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= (18/18) Oct 07 2017 Is it currently possible to somehow do @nogc formatted output to
• jmh530 (6/7) Oct 07 2017 Agreed. If you know the size of the buffer, you can use sformat,
• Igor (4/12) Oct 09 2017 As far as I know sformat is still not @nogc because it may throw
• Ilya Yaroshenko (6/24) Oct 09 2017 Phobos code is not @nogc (can be fixed), but it will not nothrow.

=?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:

Is it currently possible to somehow do  nogc formatted output to 
string?

I'm currently using my `pure  nogc nothrow` array-container 
`CopyableArray` as

 safe pure /*TODO nothrow  nogc*/ unittest
{
     import std.format : formattedWrite;
     const x = "42";
     alias A = CopyableArray!(char);
     A a;
     a.formattedWrite!("x : %s")(x);
     assert(a == "x : 42");
}

but I can't tag the unittest as `nothrow  nogc` because of the 
call to `formattedWrite`. Is this because `formattedWrite` 
internally uses the GC for buffer allocations or because it may 
throw?

It would be nice to be able to formatted output in -betterC...

jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 18:14:00 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 It would be nice to be able to formatted output in -betterC...

Agreed. If you know the size of the buffer, you can use sformat, 
which might be  nogc, but I don't know if it's compatible with 
betterC. Also, you might check out Ocean, which might have nogc 
formatting.
https://github.com/sociomantic-tsunami/ocean

Igor <stojkovic.igor gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 18:27:36 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
 On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 18:14:00 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 It would be nice to be able to formatted output in -betterC...

 Agreed. If you know the size of the buffer, you can use 
 sformat, which might be  nogc, but I don't know if it's 
 compatible with betterC. Also, you might check out Ocean, which 
 might have nogc formatting.
 https://github.com/sociomantic-tsunami/ocean

As far as I know sformat is still not  nogc because it may throw 
an exception if buffer is not large enough, and throwing 
exceptions requires allocation.

Ilya Yaroshenko <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 18:14:00 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 Is it currently possible to somehow do  nogc formatted output 
 to string?

 I'm currently using my `pure  nogc nothrow` array-container 
 `CopyableArray` as

  safe pure /*TODO nothrow  nogc*/ unittest
 {
     import std.format : formattedWrite;
     const x = "42";
     alias A = CopyableArray!(char);
     A a;
     a.formattedWrite!("x : %s")(x);
     assert(a == "x : 42");
 }

 but I can't tag the unittest as `nothrow  nogc` because of the 
 call to `formattedWrite`. Is this because `formattedWrite` 
 internally uses the GC for buffer allocations or because it may 
 throw?

 It would be nice to be able to formatted output in -betterC...

Phobos code is not  nogc (can be fixed), but it will not nothrow.

PRs with   nogc formatting functionality are welcome in Mir 
Algorithm.

Cheers,
Ilya