Re: Building a string from n chars

[Nordlöw]

On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 20:20:09 UTC, Meta wrote:
Does this work?
s ~= "*".replicate(n);

Yes, thanks.

So what's best?

    type ~= '*'.repeat(pointerCount).array;

or

    type ~= "*".replicate(pointerCount);

?

Further, -vgc says only ~= will allocate:

t_repeat_replicate.d(12,19): vgc: operator ~= may cause GC 
allocation
t_repeat_replicate.d(13,19): vgc: operator ~= may cause GC 
allocation

Is DMD/Phobos already that clever!?

:=)