From 76fd50e16fcb7dec139e46a88576c28be7140ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilya Matveev <ilya.matveev@jetbrains.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:09:35 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] stdlib: Return this from StringBuilder.append

---
 runtime/src/main/kotlin/kotlin/text/StringBuilder.kt | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/runtime/src/main/kotlin/kotlin/text/StringBuilder.kt b/runtime/src/main/kotlin/kotlin/text/StringBuilder.kt
index 9382aa69bfa..7a00af7e75d 100644
--- a/runtime/src/main/kotlin/kotlin/text/StringBuilder.kt
+++ b/runtime/src/main/kotlin/kotlin/text/StringBuilder.kt
@@ -58,19 +58,19 @@ class StringBuilder private constructor (
     }
 
     // Of Appenable.
-    override fun append(c: Char) : Appendable {
+    override fun append(c: Char) : StringBuilder {
         ensureExtraCapacity(1)
         array[length++] = c
         return this
     }
 
-    override fun append(csq: CharSequence?): Appendable {
+    override fun append(csq: CharSequence?): StringBuilder {
         // TODO: how to treat nulls properly?
         if (csq == null) return this
         return append(csq, 0, csq.length)
     }
 
-    override fun append(csq: CharSequence?, start: Int, end: Int): Appendable {
+    override fun append(csq: CharSequence?, start: Int, end: Int): StringBuilder {
         // TODO: how to treat nulls properly?
         if (csq == null) return this
         ensureExtraCapacity(end - start)
@@ -80,16 +80,18 @@ class StringBuilder private constructor (
         return this
     }
 
-    fun append(it: CharArray) {
+    fun append(it: CharArray): StringBuilder {
         ensureExtraCapacity(it.size)
         for (c in it)
             array[length++] = c
+        return this
     }
 
-    fun append(it: String) {
+    fun append(it: String): StringBuilder {
         ensureExtraCapacity(it.length)
         for (c in toCharArray(it))
             array[length++] = c
+        return this
     }
 
     fun append(it: Boolean) = append(it.toString())