std.conv - custom string to struct conversion ?

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Aug 2 00:59:44 PDT 2013


On Friday, August 02, 2013 08:40:51 monarch_dodra wrote:
> There was a request for enhancement to provide a "fromString" for
> arbitrary types. The idea is that once we have that, then
> functions such as parse or to!S(string) will be generic, and work
> on mostly anything. Unfortunatly, (AFAIK), nobody is working on
> this.
> 
> Here is a discussion I opened:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gzodptjyzpqnhxctbbuv@forum.dlang.org
> 
> ...and I just noticed it ends with me saying "I'll try to write a
> DIP then :)" and then not doing it :/

What's the point of fromString when a constructor will do the job just fine?

- Jonathan M Davis


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