When D is not nice

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superdan wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
> 
>> Frank Benoit a écrit :
>>> String concatenation in Java:
>>>
>>> "abc " + a + " bla";
>>>
>>> where a is an interface ref.
>>>
>>> Ported to D, this look like this:
>>>
>>> "abc " ~ (cast(Object)a).toString ~ " bla";
>>>
>>> This are 3 steps more:
>>> 1.) explicit cast to Object (interface/class compatibility!)
>>> 2.) explicit call to toString
>>> 3.) put additional parentheses
>>>
>>> I would be happy if we could remove all three of this annoying points.
>> Exactly the same thought here. Also:
>>
>> int i = ...;
>> char[] x = "You pressed button " + i;
>>
>> Oops... doesn't compile. To fix it:
>>
>> import std.string;
>>
>> int i = ...;
>> char[] x = "You pressed button " + toString(i);
>>
>> But wait, if that piece of code is inside a method of a class, than 
>> (WHY?) it thinks it's the toString() method, so you end up writing:
>>
>> import std.string;
>>
>> int i = ...;
>> char[] x = "You pressed button " + std.string.toString(i);
>>
>> Those are the cases I find D not nice.
> 
> yarp i concur. phobos oughtta have a function asStr that converts everything to string and concats. then you write:
> 
> auto x = asStr("You pressed button ", i, " with your pinky toe");
> 

This is also known as std.string.format.