.get refuses to work on associative array

[bauss]

On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at 22:09:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:46:58PM +0000, p.shkadzko via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> I am quite confused by the following exception during dub 
>> build:
>> 
>> > dub build --single demo.d --compiler=ldc2 --force
>> Performing "debug" build using ldc2 for x86_64.
>> demo ~master: building configuration "application"...
>> demo.d(221,20): Error: template object.get cannot deduce 
>> function from
>> argument types !()(double[string], string, string), candidates 
>> are:
>> C:\ldc2-1.20.0-windows-x64\bin\..\import\object.d(2645,10):
>>     get(K,
>> V)(inout(V[K]) aa, K key, lazy inout(V) defaultValue)
>> C:\ldc2-1.20.0-windows-x64\bin\..\import\object.d(2652,10):
>>     get(K,
>> V)(inout(V[K])* aa, K key, lazy inout(V) defaultValue)
>> 
>> The code that causes it:
>> 
>> """
>> void main(string[] args) {
>> 
>>     double[string] scores = calculateScores("test.txt");
>>     double score = scores.get("hello", 0.0); // <-- exception
>> }
>> """
>> 
>> It works if I just do "double score = scores["hello"];"
>> Both dmd and ldc2 throw this exception.
>> Is it a bug?
>
> Are you sure the error is on the line you indicated? The error 
> message
> claims that your argument types are (double[string], string, 
> string),
> but your code clearly has argument types (double[sting], string,
> double).  Are you sure dub is compiling the source file(s) you 
> think
> it's compiling?  Which source file(s) are shown by `dub -v`?
>
>
> T

It also says line 221. In which case he should be able to track 
it down to line 221 and see where the error is.