compile error on format.d

[acarion]

torhu Wrote:

> acarion wrote:
> > I'm trying DMD on Linux. I downloaded version 1.018 and installed on a Gentoo system by the instructions on prowiki http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler
> > 
> > When I try to compile a 6 lined hello world program, DMD returns
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/phobos/std/format.d(1463): found ':' when expecting ','
> > 
> > it repeats the exact same message (it appears twice).
> > 
> > What did I do wrong?
> 
> Line 1463 of format.d in phobos 1.018 looks like this:
> 
> char[5][int] aa = ([3:"hello", 4:"betty"]);
> 
> That suggests that your dmd version is older than 1.014, which is the 
> first version officially supporting the AA literal syntax.  Maybe 1.013 
> and 1.012 allowed it too, it was introduced gradually.  Anyway, make 
> sure you're using matching phobos and dmd versions.

Turned out that I still had dmd 1.010 somewhere in the system, from Gentoo's "emerge dmd"

Thanks for the help!