String implicit casts

[Sean Kelly]

lightoze wrote:
> I use this two functions:
> 
> void x(char[] x) {}
> void x(wchar[] x) {}
> 
> This works:
> 
> x(cast(char[])"x");
> x(cast(wchar[])"x");
> 
> This do not:
> 
> x("x");
> 
> I have found nothing about it in manual, can anyone tell me if it is normal or
> not?

It's normal, and is a result of the overloading rules in D.  To resolve 
an overload with string literals, try this:

x( "x"c ); // declare "x" as a char string

Templates can help as well, as in many cases you don't really need 
separate overloads for each char type.


Sean