DMD 1.031 and 2.015 templates

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>> 
>>> Some new stuff to make writing templates easier.
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.030.zip
>> 
>> (Wrong zip link ^)
>> 
>> Something broke, probably due to the fix in 617 and/or 1383:
>> 
>> Given
>> 
>> T[] layout(T) (T[] output, T[][] layout ...)
>> 
>> the following code
>> 
>> T[] format(T) (T[] output, Time t) {
>> 
>> T[] convert (T[] tmp, long i)
>> {
>>     return Integer.formatter!(T) (tmp, i, 'u', 0, 8);
>> }
>> 
>> return layout (output, "%0, %1 %2 %3 %4:%5:%6 GMT",
>>                             Days[date.dow],
>>                             convert (tmp[0..2], date.day),
>>                             Months[date.month-1],
>>                             convert (tmp[2..6], date.year),
>>                             convert (tmp[6..8], time.hours),
>>                             convert (tmp[8..10], time.minutes),
>>                             convert (tmp[10..12], time.seconds)
>>                            );
>> }
>> 
>> results in
>> 
>> :template layout(T) does not match any template declaration
>> :template layout(T) cannot deduce template function from argument types
>>
(wchar[],char[25u],wchar[],wchar[],wchar[],wchar[],wchar[],wchar[],wchar[])
> 
> Can you make a standalone test case, please?

The standalone test case works fine if I append 'w' to the literal, so seems
like that is a no :) However, prepending it with cast(T[]) seems to be an
acceptable workaround though.

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