Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Don" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Justin Johansson wrote:
So what does "toString" mean to you?
It's a hack from the early days of D. Should be unavailable unless
the -debug flag is set, to discourage people from using it. I hate it.
What don't you like about it?
It cannot even do the most basic stuff.
(1) You can't even make a struct that behaves like an int.
struct MyInt
{
int z;
string toString() { .... }
}
void main()
{
int a = 400;
MyInt b = 400;
writefln("%05d %05d", a, b);
writefln("%x %x", a, b);
}
(2) It doesn't behave like a stream. Suppose you have XmlDoc.toString()
You can't emit the doc, piece by piece. You have to create the ENTIRE
string in one go!
