toString not working... (a bug in D?)

[Daniel Giddings]

I've found use of format better in many cases as with tuple's the 
compiler can get confused as to which toString variant to use (giving a 
link error because its trying to compile a call in to toString(bool) on 
a char[]), and it happily avoids any naming conflicts with the toString 
of your class.

class Test {
         void method(int number) {
                 char[] text="Some text " ~ format(number);
         }
}

Marcin Kuszczak wrote:
> Orgoton wrote:
> 
>> Ok, now I did
>>
>> import std.string;
>> ushort number=1092;
>> char[] text="Some text " ~ toString(number);
>>
>> and the compiler claimed that the number of arguments of
>> Object.object.toString() did not match... So, I did
>>
>> char[] text="Some text " ~ std.string.toString(number);
>>
>> and it worked fine. Is this a compiler bug? I did not import object (as it
>> is implicitly done). Or have I some weird compiler configuration?
> 
> Probably you did:
> char[] text="Some text " ~ toString(number);
> 
> in class method, so compiler thought you want to refer to Object's
> toString() method.
> 
> You should escape current scope of class with '.' (dot).
> class Test {
>         void method(int number) {
>                 char[] text="Some text " ~ .toString(number);
>         }
> }
> 
> Above code should work.
>