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

[Frits van Bommel]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 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
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> 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.

I agree that would be a nice thing to have. And it can't really be that 
hard to implement; it's already done for arrays, why not for other types?