https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13802
Issue ID: 13802 Summary: Improve pretty-print result for the const(string) type Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Keywords: diagnostic Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: DMD Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: k.hara...@gmail.com Compiler knows the name 'string' as an alias of immutable(char)[] type. string s; char[] a = s; -------- Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (s) of type string to char[] But, if the 'string' type is qualified, the diagnostic message will be difficult to read. const(string) cs; char[] a = cs; -------- Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (cs) of type const(immutable(char)[]) to char[] I think it should be improved to: Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (cs) of type const(string) to char[] --