On Saturday, May 25, 2013 04:40:58 Brad Anderson wrote: > On Friday, 24 May 2013 at 19:44:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > We already have stuff like format vs formattedWrite where one > > allocates and the > > other takes an output range. We should adopt that practice in > > general. Where > > possible, it should probably be done with an overload of the > > function, but > > where that's not possible, we can simply create a new function > > with a similar > > name. > > Sounds good to me. Should the overloads return the output range > or void?
Right now, all of the functions that we have like that don't return the output range, but I don't know that it would be a bad idea if they did. - Jonathan M Davis