Extending std.format.formattedRead

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:42:25AM +0200, Kenji Hara wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 21:50:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >What's the correct way of implementing formattedRead support for
> >user-defined types? I tried overloading the unformatValue()
> >template,
> >but for some reason the compiler doesn't seem to be picking it up.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is not yet general way.
> The definition of unformatValue for user-defined type in different
> module isn't considered by std.format module. D's module system is
> closed in basic.
[...]

Does it make sense to add a fromString() method to user-defined types
for this? D's toString support is awesome (you can basically call
to!string on just about anything and it works). It would be nice to have
similar support for the reverse operation.


T

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