Disappointing inflexibility of argument passing in D

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 15:10:57 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
wrote:
> void main() {
>        //conversions from string part of the definitions of 
> Data, Data2
>     f( "hello", "bonjour"); //no way to do this --- 
> disappointing
> }
>
> See
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/agstjpezerwlgdhphclk@forum.dlang.org

Function calls are a more complicated case because of overload 
resolution.

If f(string, string) is defined, this will a) break silently or 
b) require qualification. Both is disappointing, too.