[Issue 14237] New: Poor diagnostic when declaring a init() class member function.

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14237

          Issue ID: 14237
           Summary: Poor diagnostic when declaring a init() class member
                    function.
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: DMD
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: heartcollector.87 at gmail.com

This sample program will create a really difficult-to-understand error message.

import std.container;

class MyClass
{
    void init() {};
}

private Array!MyClass temp;

void main() {}

/opt/compilers/dmd2/include/std/container.d(2562): Error: template
std.algorithm.initializeAll cannot deduce function from argument types
!()(MyClass[]), candidates are:
/opt/compilers/dmd2/include/std/algorithm.d(1266):
std.algorithm.initializeAll(Range)(Range range) if (isInputRange!Range &&
hasLvalueElements!Range && hasAssignableElements!Range)
/opt/compilers/dmd2/include/std/algorithm.d(1294):
std.algorithm.initializeAll(Range)(Range range) if (is(Range == char[]) ||
is(Range == wchar[])) /opt/compilers/dmd2/include/std/container.d(3391): Error:
template std.algorithm.copy cannot deduce function from argument types
!()(Range, Range), candidates are:
/opt/compilers/dmd2/include/std/algorithm.d(7497): std.algorithm.copy(Range1,
Range2)(Range1 source, Range2 target) if (isInputRange!Range1 &&
isOutputRange!(Range2, ElementType!Range1))

DMD does not complain if a user declares a init() member function for a class,
even if init() is a property defined for every Type. This can cause really ugly
errors as the one displayed above. Usually trying to define a property and a
function with the same name results in a much nicer error.

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