digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 22820] New: Error messages for slice pointers of structs with
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (31/31) Feb 23 2022 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22820
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22820 Issue ID: 22820 Summary: Error messages for slice pointers of structs with opIndex can be improved Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: contact lsferreira.net Error messages for slice pointers without bounds can be improved to show an hint to the programmer to explicit dereference the pointer to access opIndex, e.g.: struct Atum { int[] opIndex() { return a; } int[] a; } int main() { Atum* atum = new Atum; writeln(atum[].ptr); } Should produce something like: Error: need upper and lower bound to slice pointer, perhaps you meant `(*atum)[]` --
Feb 23 2022