Why is a cast needed here?

[Daniel Giddings]

Looks like its a bug in 0.175, I've just needed to add the same casts to my 
code. It's a compiler issue rather than a lib issue, as the SocketType and 
ProtocolType are declared as enums in the same way, but don't need the cast.

:-) Dan

"Dave" <Dave_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> import std.socket;
>
> void main()
> {
> //Socket s = new 
> Socket(AddressFamily.INET,SocketType.STREAM,ProtocolType.TCP);
>   Socket s = new 
> Socket(cast(AddressFamily)AddressFamily.INET,SocketType.STREAM,ProtocolType.TCP);
> }
>
> Why is the 'cast(AddressFamily)' needed?
>
> W/o the cast:
>
> t.d(5): constructor std.socket.Socket.this () does not match parameter 
> types (int,SocketType,ProtocolType)
> t.d(5): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (2) of type int to 
> AddressFamily
> t.d(5): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (6) of type 
> ProtocolType to char[]
> t.d(5): Error: cannot cast int to char[]
>
> Thanks!