string not aliased

[Carlos Santander]

Charles Brossollet escribió:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a complete newbie to D, and tried the examples on the Wikipedia
> page. the example 2 shows a main function like this:
> 
> int main(string[] args)   // string is a type alias for const(char)[]
> 
> But, I get this error on compile:
> hello.d:3: Error: identifier 'string' is not defined
> hello.d:3: Error: string is used as a type
> hello.d:3: function hello.main parameters must be main() or
> main(char[][] args)
> 
> Is the guy writing the example wrong? Or is it my environment? (gdc
> 0.23, on Mac OSX 10.4)
> 
> Thanks,
> 

string was added in DMD 1.016, which corresponds to GDC SVN revision 134. GDC 
0.23 is only up to DMD 1.007, so get the latest GDC. You can find instructions 
in http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/UnixInstallGdc, down to the "GDC 
Installation from source" section.

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Carlos Santander Bernal