grauzone wrote:
Don wrote:
Lutger wrote:
Don wrote:
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There is a definite use for such as thing. But the existing toString()
is much, much worse than useless. People think you can do something
with
it, but you can't.
eg, people have asked for BigInt to support toString(). That is an
over-my-dead-body.
How are you supposed to print a BigInt then?
How are you supposed to print one with it? It doesn't help.
(The problem even more obvious if you consider BigFloat).
Just put it into an "interface DebugOutput", remove Object.toString(),
and be done with it. That interface could be defined in the same module
as writefln or format, and its use will be clear.
BigInt is a struct, so it doesn't have interfaces.
