• David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> Sep 22 2005
• =?UTF-8?B?VGhvbWFzIEvDvGhuZQ==?= <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> Sep 24 2005

David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:

// charsuffix.d
// WinXP SP2 / dmd v0.132
private import std.stdio;

void test(in char[] s)
{
writefln("bool test(in char[] s)");
}

void test(...)
{
writefln("bool test(...)");
}

int main()
{
test("string");             // Calls void test(in char[] s)
test(128U);                 // Calls void test(...)
test(cast(char[])"string"); // Calls void test(in char[] s)

/*
* charsuffix.d(29): function charsuffix.test called with argument types:
*   (char[6])
* matches both:
*   charsuffix.test(char[])
* and:
*   charsuffix.test(...)
*/
//test("string"c);
return 0;
}

It appears that a casted string literal is handed differently then a string
literal using the new string suffixes, shouldn't these work exact same way?

David L.

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=?UTF-8?B?VGhvbWFzIEvDvGhuZQ==?= <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> writes:

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David L. Davis schrieb:

 // charsuffix.d
 // WinXP SP2 / dmd v0.132
 private import std.stdio;
 
 void test(in char[] s)
 {
 writefln("bool test(in char[] s)");
 }
 
 void test(...)
 {
 writefln("bool test(...)");
 }
 
 int main()
 {
 test("string");             // Calls void test(in char[] s)
 test(128U);                 // Calls void test(...)
 test(cast(char[])"string"); // Calls void test(in char[] s)
 
 /*
 * charsuffix.d(29): function charsuffix.test called with argument types:
 *   (char[6])
 * matches both:
 *   charsuffix.test(char[])
 * and:
 *   charsuffix.test(...)
 */
 //test("string"c);
 return 0;
 }
 
 It appears that a casted string literal is handed differently then a string
 literal using the new string suffixes, shouldn't these work exact same way?
 
 David L.


Added to DStress as
http://dstress.kuehne.cn/run/v/variadic_argument_07_A.d
http://dstress.kuehne.cn/run/v/variadic_argument_07_B.d
http://dstress.kuehne.cn/run/v/variadic_argument_07_C.d
http://dstress.kuehne.cn/run/v/variadic_argument_07_D.d

Thomas


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