Is this a known issue in Phobos/DMD?

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/05/2013 05:09 PM, d coder wrote:
> Greetings
>
> When I compile the code below, I unexpectedly get an error:
> test.d(7): Error: template std.string.format does not match any function
> template declaration. Candidates are:
> /home/puneet/local/github-d/bin/../phobos/std/string.d(2528):
>   std.string.format(Char, Args...)(in Char[] fmt, Args args)
> test.d(7): Error: template std.string.format(Char, Args...)(in Char[]
> fmt, Args args) cannot deduce template function from argument types
> !()(string,void)
>
> There are a couple of issues involved here.
> 1. std.string is exposing "count" (and some other functions) from
> std.algorithm. I think this should be a bug since count is not listed as
> a method in the std.string documentation.
> 2. Now the function from std.algorithm that becomes visible, shadows the
> local argument count. Is this expected behavior? If not, has it already
> been reported as a bug? At the minimum I expect better error message here.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> - Puneet
>
>
> void main() {                   // 1
>    foo(4);                       // 2
> }                               // 3
>                                  // 4
> void foo(int count) {           // 5
>    import std.string;            // 6
>    format("%s", count);          // 7
> }                               // 8
>

I think it is a bug, but there is no documentation.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7329

The part about count is caused by Phobos.

(from std.string:

//Remove when repeat is finally removed. They're only here as part of the
//deprecation of these functions in std.string.
public import std.algorithm : startsWith, endsWith, cmp, count; )