On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 17:27:02 UTC, Giles Bathgate wrote:
I like the name. I think your version is quite low level which
ultimately provides more power at the expense of making the
callee code less clean. I am not sure with D which of those two
aspects is preferred. Perhaps both functions could be provided?
What is the use case for knowing whether a value was inserted.
You may need to perform extra logic when value is inserted in the
container and something else when value already existed.
I have a special version of function for that:
Value* getOrCreate(Key key, out bool wasCreated, Value
default_value = Value.init)
here is an example of usage:
https://github.com/MrSmith33/voxelman/blob/master/plugins/voxelman/entity/entityobservermanager.d#L33
