Error: this for <method name> needs to be type S not type MapResult!...

Peter Neubauer peterneubauer2 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 29 12:43:59 PDT 2013


Please explain why this error happens in the following code:

import std.algorithm;

struct S
{
   void foo ()
   {
     int f1 (int a) { return conv(a); }
     int delegate (int) f2 = &conv;

     int[] x = [1, 2, 3];
     x.map!conv;    // ERROR
     x.map!f1;      // fine
     x.map!f2;      // also fine
   }

   int conv (int a)
   {
     return a+1;
   }
}

--- compile output:

/usr/include/d/std/algorithm.d(404): Error: this for conv needs to be 
type S not type MapResult!(conv, int[])
/usr/include/d/std/algorithm.d(438): Error: this for conv needs to be 
type S not type MapResult!(conv, int[])
/usr/include/d/std/algorithm.d(450): Error: this for conv needs to be 
type S not type MapResult!(conv, int[])
/usr/include/d/std/algorithm.d(390): Error: template instance 
std.algorithm.MapResult!(conv, int[]) error instantiating
/home/peter/proggen/goliza.reduced/gtp.d(12):        instantiated from 
here: map!(int[])
/home/peter/proggen/goliza.reduced/gtp.d(12): Error: template instance 
std.algorithm.map!(conv).map!(int[]) error instantiating

---

Thanks,
-Peter


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