overload/ride

[Ant]

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> Ant wrote:
>> I'm trying to use tango and I found Cout doesn't take int.
[...]
> 
> I believe that's by design.  If you are wanting more flexible output 
> than flat strings can provide, I recommend trying tango.io.Stdout:Stdout 
> instead.

thank you, I got that tip for the IRC also.

> 
>> Am I doing something wrong? is this a D limitation?
>> where is the super.opCall(char[]) hiding?
> 
> Its hiding in the parent class, and this is a limitation.  The problem 
> is that the lookup rules will not automatically look to the parent class 
> if the symbol has matches in the current class.  Oy.  The fix is this:
> 
> 
>     alias Console.Output.opCall opCall; // <- the fix
> 
> 
[...]
> The problem here is a more interesting one, and it has to do with your 
> overloads.  They should be returning 'MOutput's rather than 
> 'Console.Output's, other wise the chained calls to opCall() will happen 
> in Console.Output's namespace...  isn't OOP fun?
> 
[...]
> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

You're right, so the real fix is:

	MOutput opCall(char[] str)
	{
		super.opCall(str);
		return this;
	}
	
	MOutput opCall(int i)
	{
		// do something here
		return this;
	}

of course, this has no real use, just helped me better understand D.

thanks.

Ant