Return type of put and get.

[SpintroniK]

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Just wondering why the return type of put is T&? (same for get).
I don't really see why these functions return the value we feed them with.
I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to have put return the next writable location, kind of like putString.
That way, it would become possible to save structs one after another, by using the returned value as the next address.
Perhaps it would also make sense if get just returned void.
What do you guys think?

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[nseidle]

Sorry for the late reply. I suspect the return type is just a hold over from the Arduino internal eeprom library (what this library is based on).

I'm very open to changing the return type for put. I doubt many folks are using it so I'm ok with a breaking change.

[SpintroniK]

Hi, no worries.
I think it would be a lot nicer if put returned the next writable address.
That'd be quite useful, in fact, as it would allow to chain calls to put quite easily.