On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 06:33:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
I suspect this is intended?
The problem is that you're hiding a method that is still
reachable through the vtable.
Rather than throwing a runtime error this was changed to a
compiler error.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4606
You should not turn off deprecations btw ;).
The simple solution in you case is to override the inherited
`string toString()` with an implementation that forwards to your
`toString()`.
class UniText
{
override string toString() { return toString(null).idup; }
abstract const char[] toString (char[] dst = null);
abstract const wchar[] toString16 (wchar[] dst = null);
abstract const dchar[] toString32 (dchar[] dst = null);
}
Also see at
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/4e799b75ebcb6d00ccefbcfd763a1f5d158357a1/src/object.d#L1598 for an example of an alternative overridable toString method.
Maybe you should use the delegate based toString as well, it's
already supported by a some phobos formatting.
