On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 21:22:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:51:49PM +0000, mw via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
> auto line = range.front;
> range.popFront; // pop immediately
[...]
This is dangerous, because it assumes .front is not invalidated
by .popFront. It will not work, for example, with byLine
because .front returns a buffer which is reused by .popFront (a
so-called "transient range").
This is valid reason, but as I replied in the other post: it
depends on the actual underlying data structure and usage
scenario, so:
"why not provide a popAndReturnFront(), and let the user decide
based on his/her own actual usage?"
