Boy, std.bitmanip.bigEndianToNative is annoying to use

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 22 May 2015 at 19:44:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:39:12PM -0700, H. S. Teoh via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> 	face.palm();
>> 	head.hang!inShame();
>> 	self.crawlBackTo(hole);
> [...]
>
> Truth be told, though, the error message was very unhelpful 
> about it. It
> just says no templates were matched, no indication about the 
> fact that
> the problem was caused by mismatched type lengths.

Well, I'm not sure how we could fix that. That's a general 
problem with template constraints. You know that they aren't 
passing, but you don't know _why_ they aren't passing. Though 
maybe in this case, the docs could be improved to make it clearer 
that if you're getting compilation errors, there's a decent 
chance that you got the type sizes wrong.

- Jonathan M Davis