• Nick (15/15) Aug 12 2004 Consider the following:
• h3r3tic (4/20) Aug 12 2004 that's the way it's meant to be working. it's even in the format func,
• Ant (11/26) Aug 12 2004 it's suppose to do that, it's just broken, check the bugs group.

Nick <Nick_member pathlink.com> writes:

Consider the following:













Wouldn't it be more natural for writefln to call the object's toString member?
(Is it even possible?)

Nick

h3r3tic <h3r3tic dev.null> writes:

Nick wrote:
 Consider the following:
 











 
 Wouldn't it be more natural for writefln to call the object's toString member?
 (Is it even possible?)

that's the way it's meant to be working. it's even in the format func, 
well partially. It doesn't work because typeinfo's are still broken. as 
soon as they are fixed, your example will work perfectly :]

Ant <Ant_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <cfgd62$2flg$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Nick says...
Consider the following:













Wouldn't it be more natural for writefln to call the object's toString member?
(Is it even possible?)

Nick

it's suppose to do that, it's just broken, check the bugs group.

Ant

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/std_format.html#format-string

FormatChar

's'
The corresponding argument is formatted in a manner consistent with its type:
[...]

classes derived from Object
The result is the string returned from the class instance's .toString() method.
A Precision specifies the maximum number of characters to use in the result.