Behaviour of alias this changed

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Tue May 8 10:11:22 PDT 2012


I have some code along these lines:

	struct S {
		short[4] data;
		alias this data;

		string toString() { ... }
	}
	...
	S s;
	writeln(to!string(s));

In dmd 2.059 (I believe) and earlier, this calls S.toString(). However,
in git dmd, this calls data.toString() instead.

I'm just curious about the rationale for this change, and whether
there's a way to override the toString() call so that it always calls
S.toString()?


T

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