toString not working... (a bug in D?)

[Daniel Keep]

Ary Manzana wrote:
> That's not very intuitive :-(
> 
> Can't this be fixed? toString methods should be easy to work since they 
> are widely used.

I can think of two ways:

1) Allow for type extensions, or
2) require the use of "this" in front of all members -- hey, it works 
for Python! :3

The problem here is that if called from an object instance, 
"this.toString" shadows any global "toString"s.  It's not so much a bug 
as a consequence of how D's lookup rules work.  Personally, I think #1 
above is the best long-term solution to this, as it allows you to more 
obviously disambiguate what you're trying to say.

	-- Daniel