Bug in D?!

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Mr. Pib wrote:

> string Q(alias T, alias D)()
> {
> 	pragma(msg, T);
> 	pragma(msg, D);
> 	enum x = T~" = "~D~";";
> 	pragma(msg, x);
> }
>
>
> mixin(Q!(`x`, 100)());
>
> outputs, at compile time,
>
> x
> 100
> x = d;
>
> there is no lowercase d. I did initially define Q as
>
> string Q(alias T, D)(D d)
>
> and one might think it is remnants left over from I cleaned the project 
> so it shouldn't be happening. Seems like a bug.
>
> (I realized that I'd probably only ever pass compile time values)
>
> Of course, using D.stringof gives the value.
>
> The problem is the case of D.

nope. the problem is the *value* of D. `char(100)` == 'd'.

	string s = "<"~100~">";

yes, this works. weither this bug or not is questionable, but this is how D 
works regerding to implicit type conversions: small ints (in the range of 
[0..char.max]) will be implicitly converted to `char` if necessary.