[Issue 2367] New: Overloading error

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM,  <d-bugmail at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2367
>>
>>           Summary: Overloading error
>>           Product: D
>>           Version: unspecified
>>          Platform: PC
>>        OS/Version: Linux
>>            Status: NEW
>>          Severity: normal
>>          Priority: P2
>>         Component: DMD
>>        AssignedTo: bugzilla at digitalmars.com
>>        ReportedBy: andrei at metalanguage.com
>>
>>
>> The following code does not compile:
>>
>> struct S {
>>    void foo(in char[] s) {}
>>    void foo(in dchar[] s) {}
>> }
>>
>> void main(string[] args) {
>>    S s;
>>    s.foo("a");
>> }
>>
>> The second overload should not even be considered.
> 
> "string literals" do not have a type; they are, in some ways,
> polysemous.  They are considered char[], wchar[], or dchar[] based on
> where they're used.  If they're used in a situation where it could go
> either way (such as this overloading case), it's an error.
> 
> The solution is simple: affix a 'c', 'w', or 'd' to the end of the
> string literal to give it an explicit type.

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