Doubt about type Inference on templates
Antonio
antoniocabreraperez at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 17:53:15 UTC 2023
Just for fun, I'm trying to implement an alternative base library
to avoid template/mixin/static/traits code with only one
objective: make "intelliSense" code analyzers tasks easier.
I need "Generics"... but D has not generics: I use templates in
the "simplest" possible way
I.E.:
```d
interface IIterable(T)
{
bool empty();
void popFront();
T front();
}
IIterable!S toIterable(S)(S[] source)
=> new ArrayIterable!S(source);
IIterable!S filter(S)(IIterable!S source, bool delegate(S item)
predicate)
=> new Filter!S(source, predicate);
IIterable!S filter(S)(S[] source, bool delegate(S item) predicate)
=> toIterable(source).filter(predicate);
// ...
```
Then, in main.d I do
```d
import std.stdio;
void main(){
[1,2,3,4,5,6].toIterable!int.filter!int(i=>i%2==0).map!int(i=>i*2).toArray.writeln();
}
```
It works properly... until I remove the ```!int``` from the
```filter``` method.
```
main.d(3,38): Error: none of the overloads of template `filter`
are callable using argument types `!()(IIterable!int, void)`
iterable.d(21,13): Candidates are: `filter(S)(IIterable!S
source, bool delegate(S item) predicate)`
iterable.d(23,13): `filter(S)(S[] source,
bool delegate(S item) predicate)`
```
Basically, it doesn't know witch version of ```filter``` to use,
because it is inferring `i=>i%2==0` is `void` ?!?!?!
```
!()(IIterable!int, void)
```
If I explicitly write `(int i)=>i%2==0`, it compiles correctly
again.
**Is it mandatory to explicitly tell that `S` is `int` when
```IIterable!S source``` is `IIterable!int` alredy?**
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