On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dmitry Olshansky <[email protected]>wrote:
> Regarding toString there is a better signature that avoids useless > allocations: > > void toString(scope void delegate(const (char)[]) sink); > > It takes a delegate to output string representation directly to the > destination via 'sink' delegate (that may e.g. write chars to file). Plus > the 'scope' part of declaration avoids allocating the said delegate on the > heap. > > I'd even say that string toString(); is an artifact of the past, instead > to!string should be used (if allocating a string is fine). I know you explained that already, but see, that again slipped my mind. This toString(sink) thingy seems cool, but is there a documentation on it somewhere? Without a related doc, I fear no one will know this exists.
