https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14998
--- Comment #7 from Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> --- Except that's not exactly the reason. The reason is because no implementation exists to support it. Quite literally, the compiler tried to find a suitable mechanism, and couldn't. Changing the error message to be more specific to this situation may read confusingly for another case where that *isn't* the problem. I think it's possible we could make a special message for these situations, the code is already pretty dead set against allowing this (and has special cases to handle it). I just don't know what the correct answer is. I was just reading this on the docs: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range_primitives.html#.put "r.putChar(e); R accepts some form of string or character. put will transcode the character e accordingly." In the implementation of putChar, it specifically forbids r to be a dynamic array. So we may want to add a note that R cannot be a dynamic array of char in this position (I'm unsure why, since it is possible). I will note that before the "putChar" function was added, it still didn't compile. --
