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

[Leopold Walkling]

Hello Marcin,

> Orgoton wrote:
> 
>> Ok, now I did
>> 
>> import std.string;
>> ushort number=1092;
>> char[] text="Some text " ~ toString(number);
>> and the compiler claimed that the number of arguments of
>> Object.object.toString() did not match... So, I did
>> 
>> char[] text="Some text " ~ std.string.toString(number);
>> 
>> and it worked fine. Is this a compiler bug? I did not import object
>> (as it is implicitly done). Or have I some weird compiler
>> configuration?
>> 
> Probably you did:
> char[] text="Some text " ~ toString(number);
> in class method, so compiler thought you want to refer to Object's
> toString() method.
> 
> You should escape current scope of class with '.' (dot).
> class Test {
> void method(int number) {
> char[] text="Some text " ~ .toString(number);
> }
> }
> Above code should work.
> 


This problem only occurs if you import specific modules (std.thread). So 
if you comment out that line, you can use toString without the dot, this 
isn't the wanted behavior, right?