Silly struct behaviour

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 06:48:27PM +0000, JN via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 18:09:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > 
> > It's not quite so simple. Consider for example:
> > 
> > 	struct Foo { int bar; }
> > 	struct Oof { int bar; }
> > 
> > 	void process(Foo foo) { }
> > 	void process(Oof oof) { formatDisk(); }
> > 
> > 	void main() {
> > 		process({bar : 5}); // which overload should get called?
> > 	}
> > 
> 
> in this case, I'd expect something like:
> 
> error: ambiguous struct definition, could match process(Foo) or process(Oof)

File an enhancement request:

	https://issues.dlang.org/enter_bug.cgi

You never know, we may be able to convince Walter to add this at some
point. :-P


T

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