About string and int spliced together.

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/19/20 8:37 AM, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Friday, 19 June 2020 at 10:57:42 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> 
>> It used to call std.conv.toChars but that triggered a dmd regression 
>> with a particular set of circumstances so it was changed to use to!():
>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6659
>>
>> In bugzilla there was a better alternative workaround but no one 
>> submitted a pull for that in time for the release:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17712#c11
>>
>> I haven't been able to reproduce the test case with v2.092.0, but 
>> maybe I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> Am I reading this right? Library was downgraded because of a regression 
> in the compiler? Tell me I'm not reading this right.

I don't think it's a regression in the compiler, I think it's a bug that 
always existed in the compiler, and a change to phobos brought it out. 
So the decision was made to undo the phobos change rather than tackle 
the (probably very difficult) compiler bug.

Not saying I agree with the decision, but that was why it was done. Some 
were not happy with the resolution. I wish the compiler could be fixed, 
but I lack the skills to even approach it. It seems the speculative 
generation of templates is a difficult problem for even regular D 
compiler devs to approach.

-Steve