opDispatch and template parameters

[Guillaume B.]

Simen kjaeraas wrote:

> Guillaume B. <guillaume.b.spam at spam.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Is this usage of opDispatch supposed to work:
>>
>> ====
>> module test.d;
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> struct DispatchTest {
>>     void opDispatch(string name, string otherName)() {
>>         writeln(name, ":", otherName);
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>>     DispatchTest t;
>>     //t.testName!("testOtherName")();
>>     t.opDispatch!("testName", "testOtherName")();
>> }
>> ====
>> [...]
> 
> Sorry for not noticing this post before. This is not a bug. The correct
> way to do what you want is this:
> 
> 
> module foo;
> 
> import std.stdio;
> 
> struct test {
>      template opDispatch( string name ) {
>          void opDispatch( string other )( ) {
>              writeln( name, ", ", other );
>          }
>      }
> }
> 
> void main( ) {
>      test t;
>      t.foo!( "Hey!" )( );
> }
> 

 Wow! That's a nice trick! Seems like I'll have to be carefull when defining 
opDispatch!

 Guillaume