Re: Struct toString works but not std.conv.to!string

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 22:21:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
Reduced with a workaround:
struct UTCOffset
{
    import std.conv : to;    // Move to module scope to compile

This introduces UTCOffset.to as an alias to std.conv.to.

    string toString() const
    {
        return "hello";
    }
}

void main() {
    import std.conv : to;

This ends up being ignored, because UTCOffset has a member called 
`to`.

    UTCOffset().to!string;

This does not do call std.conv.to through UFCS. Instead, it calls 
UTCOffset's static alias of std.conv.to without an argument.

That is: `UTCOffset().to!string;` = `UTCOffset.to!string;` = 
`std.conv.to!string;`

}