On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 15:00:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 12/5/13 12:52 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 08:45:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-12-05 09:09, monarch_dodra wrote:
Use an output range. It's the generic D approach, and what
we already do
for the string functions such as std.string.translate:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#.translate
(look down for the output range overloads).
Anything "allocator" related should be carried by the output
range
itself. The function itself should not care nor know about
any of that.
In general case, what would you suggest for functions not
operating on
ranges?
How do you mean? As in functions that only output a "single
item"?
Returns a non-linear data structure such as a hash table.
Andrei
Output range! :)
Output range interface makes no linearity requirements. Just
that: "out.put(this)" compiles.
