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Appender.put return value
Jul 24, 2014
JR
Jul 24, 2014
Temtaime
Jul 24, 2014
monarch_dodra
July 24, 2014
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Is there a big reason why Appender.put doesn't return &this?

http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/bb840e3e349e

It would allow for convenient chaining. :<
July 24, 2014
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It's better to return "this" and have return type "ref auto" i think.
July 24, 2014
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On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 17:43:36 UTC, JR wrote:
> Is there a big reason why Appender.put doesn't return &this?
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> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/bb840e3e349e
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> It would allow for convenient chaining. :<

AFAIK, no reason no. That said, it wouldn't be useable in generic code.