On 2011-06-11 19:41, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On 2011-06-11 19:29, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > > I can't seem to find anything specific like an enhancement request. > > > > Here's a similar report by you: > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4971 > > > > Maybe we should have a 'common (newbie) mistakes' section on the > > website and add this bit of information there. > > It certainly sounds like a good idea. And thanks to the fact that we're > switching to d-programming-language.org, and its source is up on github, > it's even possible for anyone to make the changes necessary and create a > pull request for it. > > What I'd like to see templates be able to do though is better recognize a > type that _will_ work in at least a few common cases. Static arrays are > one (if all of the template overloads fail, perhaps it should try > instiating them with the dynamic version of the same type). Another is > immutable dynamic arrays. const(T)[] would work if you declared the > template with those explicit parameters, but as long as it's taking R or > Range instead of const(T)[] for arrays, a range-based function won't work > with immutable arrays even though it should. But that sort of change could > be too big a change to how templates work. I don't know. I should probably > write up an enhancement request on the subject.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6148