On Thursday, 10 April 2014 at 10:16:43 UTC, Chris wrote:
Ah, this one \me (= escaped me). Sorry I wasn't precise, I was
wondering if it is in any way dangerous to have
@property string[] items() {
return buf.data;
}
instead of:
string[] items;
// ...
public addItem(string item) {
items ~= item;
}
because the two are not the same. When you print MyStruct to
console you get the address of appender buf, whereas when you
use string[] items you get the actual items. I'm only
wondereing if using appender is potentially dangerous and could
bite me later.
The only thing I know of is if you store the reference returned
by items(), clear the appender, and add new items, the contents
of the previously returned slice will change too. Clearing an
appender is similar to setting slice length to 0 and calling
assumeSafeAppend on it.
