Tango BitArray Initialization

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> John Reimer wrote:
>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:41:48 -0800, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> Another simple alternative could employ a static opAssign.
>>>
>>> This would make things much simpler:
>>>
>>> BitArray bitbag = 0b11111000000;
>>>
>>> The value is limited to 64-bits, but at least it's clean and simple for
>>> those situations where we don't have a long initialization value.
>>> (this would work for hexidecimal value also).  For any larger values we
>>> can use an array literal assignment or something similar.
>>>
>>
>> Does opAssign work that way?  I think it has to be done in two lines:
>>
>>  BitArray bitbag;
>>  bitbag = 0b11111000000;
>>
>> Yes that does seem to be the case.  Otherwise you get, bizarrely, the 
>> error "no property 'opCall' for type 'Foo'".
> 
> Oddly, if you make the opCall static, it works.
> 
> 
> Sean

Hmm.  Show me how.  This and several variations of this that I tried do 
not work:

import std.stdio;
struct Struct
{
     static void opAssign(int i) {
         val = i;
     }
     int val = 0;
}

void main()
{
     Struct s = 2;
     writefln("S.val=%s", s.val);
}



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