Getting N messages for N template parameter variations on a template.

void foo(A,B)();

A and B are selected from N different values and all are used.

If there is an error in the function then I get N^2 error messages, one for each combination. All the error messages say the same thing except A and B are different.

If the error message is several lines then that is multiplied by N^2.

Why can't D do a bit of error diagnostics. If the errors pertain to the same template and have every character the sample except the template values then just make a generic message:

These are the actual error messages, I did not copy and paste!!!



o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, float).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, float).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d-mixin-264(274): Error: template instance `foo!(float, float)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, int).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, int).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d-mixin-264(277): Error: template instance `foo!(float, int)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, int24).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, int24).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d-mixin-264(280): Error: template instance `foo!(float, int24)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, short).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, short).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d-mixin-264(283): Error: template instance `foo!(float, short)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, byte).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, byte).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d-mixin-264(286): Error: template instance `foo!(float, byte)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, ubyte).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, ubyte).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d-mixin-264(289): Error: template instance `foo!(float, ubyte)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(float, void).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(float, void).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)`


and this is when A is constant! When I allow A to vary then it is squared in number!! It is ridiculous!


It all could be simplified:

.d-mixin-264(274): Error: template instance `foo!(A, B)` error instantiating o.d(152): Error: function `foo!(A, B).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(152): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0` o.d(174): Error: function `foo!(A, B).bar(string)` is not callable using argument types `(int)` o.d(174): cannot pass argument `bufPos` of type `double` to parameter `int x = 0`
where A is float, B is ubyte, void, float, etc...


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