Odd to!string call

[Pelle]

On 12/21/2010 07:38 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I found this by accident:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.conv;
>
> void main()
> {
>      writeln(to!string(2, 2));  // writes 10
>      writeln(to!string(1, 0));  // std.conv.ConvException: Radix error
> }
>
> I'm not sure why "std.conv.to" would even take multiple arguments. Bugzilla?

to! does some fancy stuff, like here:

auto myarr = [1,2,3];
writeln(to!string(myarr, "myarr:\n", "\n", "\n-----\n");

will write (untested, but should work :-)

myarr:
1
2
3
-----

I find this most useful a lot of the time.