On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Steve Schveighoffer wrote: > Some very good names came out of the newsgroup since the last release of DMD > for the "shrinkToFit" function that I added recently. > > The function makes the size of an allocated array match the given array slice > so you can re-use the extra space via appending. > > It is the equivalent of reducing the length in the old system. > > The usage was: > > arr.shrinkToFit(); > > several posters on the NG (See > http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=17800) > suggested some good names. A great suggestion was to follow in the > footsteps of assumeUnique, since an assumption is what we are making. > > The tricky part is to identify what we are assuming. I think these two best > capture what the function does: > > assumeSafeExtend > assumeSafeAppend > > Don came up with the first, I came up with the second as an improvement. > Does anyone have any opinions here or other ideas? If not, I'll just use > assumeSafeAppend.
assumeSafeExtend would be consistent with GC.extend, but either works. _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
