Ellery Newcomer Wrote: > Hello all, > > I began learning D a few months ago, and now I have a question about > cyclic dependencies (and some random whining). > > I come from a java background and have had no serious exposure to C++. > In java, cyclic dependencies are legit to the best of my knowledge. I > don't know about C++, thus I don't know about D. > > When I first started learning D I decided that a good way to learn it > would be by porting a popular java api (mind, I didn't say intelligent), > which came complete with a few cyclic dependencies. At the moment, I'm > using GDC, and it refuses to swallow cyclic dependencies. The compiler > doesn't complain, but it throws a runtime exception. I can break the > dependency loops and GDC will work just fine, but what I'm wondering is > whether it is standard that the dependency hierarchy be acyclic, or is > this some quirk of GDC, or is it more likely that there is something > weird going on in my java-to-D translation. > > Also, I would be trying to compile with DMD, but I have evidently > managed to crash the compiler, and I don't know if it's DMD's fault or > mine. It reports an Internal Error in e2ir.c at line 3904. (not being a > C++ guru, the line "assert(n2->Enumbytes);" doesn't mean much to me) > That was with DMD 1.037, Tango 0.997, and using dsss to build. > > On an unrelated note, is this code supposed to be incorrect? > > wchar[] w = (true)? "true":"false"; > > --> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression ("true") of type char[] > to wchar[] > > or should it be reported as a bug?
just use: wchar[] w = (true)? "true"w:"false"w;