toString ugliness

[Jerry]

toString() doesn't work inside a class member function.

import std.string;
class A {
  void f() {
    string s = toString(5);
  }
}

This errors with junk.d(19): function object.Object.toString () does not match parameter types (int)

This is a nuisance and a wart (though not a bug per-se).

If the language really can't handle distinguishing this.toString() from toString(int), then std.string.toString really should have a different name.

It can be solved somewhat by documenting clearly that to!(string)(int)
be used instead, which seems silly to me.  I'm irritated by the 3 extra chars required to type a to!(type) template.

.toString() works around the problem, but why should it be needed?  This is unfortunate.

Does this bother anyone else?  If not, I'll return to my lurking cave :-)