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Is there a good example on how to use `buildString()`?
<https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.text/build-string.html>

```
buildString {
    append("Hello ")
    append(name)
    append('!')
}
```

Bit of a contrived example, since here string templates would be a cleaner solution. But it get's the idea across I think.

i wish it would done like this:
```
buildString {
    +"Hello "
    +name
    +"!"
}
```

That would require an additional wrapper object around the `StringBuilder` to add the necessary `String` extension function. If you are willing to pay that cost you can do something like this:
```
inline fun myBuildString(builder: StringBuilderContext.() -&gt; Unit): String {
    return StringBuilderContext(StringBuilder()).apply(builder).toString()
}

class StringBuilderContext(private val builder: StringBuilder) {
    operator fun String.unaryPlus() {
        builder.append(this)
    }
    override fun toString() = builder.toString()
}
```

But I don't think it should be the default.

Maybe someday if we get syntax for multiple receivers