On Friday, 29 March 2013 at 02:39:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Only having append would actually be problematic, as there
are cases where you really do need write and not append. And
neither of them
have been in Phobos for all that long (peek, read, write, and
append were
added in 2.060).
- Jonathan M Davis
Ah, I was just going by the docs when I wrote this. I apparently
got it wrong. write doesn't using indexing it uses opSliceAssign
(which isn't in its constraints). I'm also not familiar with the
use cases and there are definitely reasons to stray from
idiomatic D.
