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Ender KaShae <astrothayne@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Ender KaShae <astrothayne@gmail.com> ---
Simply changing the Target to a ref wouldn't be backward compatible, because then it wouldn't be possible to use an rvalue as a target, which is useful for copying to an array slice, or using a range that wraps another output range, such as retro.

Also, std.range.put _does_ take a reference, and can be used to copy a range. Alternatively, copy returns the state of the output range after copying, so in the MD5 example you could use `s.copy(d2).finish().toHexString` to get the correct MD5 sum.

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Eduard Staniloiu <edi33416@gmail.com> changed:

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Jack Stouffer <jack@jackstouffer.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jack Stouffer <jack@jackstouffer.com> ---
To be honest, the behavior of copy really only makes sense for array targets. It doesn't make any sense to return the "remainder" of a generic output range.

copying to non-arrays should be deprecated

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--- Comment #3 from Jack Stouffer <jack@jackstouffer.com> ---
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6039

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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