When D is not nice

[superdan]

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

> Frank Benoit a écrit :
> > String concatenation in Java:
> > 
> > "abc " + a + " bla";
> > 
> > where a is an interface ref.
> > 
> > Ported to D, this look like this:
> > 
> > "abc " ~ (cast(Object)a).toString ~ " bla";
> > 
> > This are 3 steps more:
> > 1.) explicit cast to Object (interface/class compatibility!)
> > 2.) explicit call to toString
> > 3.) put additional parentheses
> > 
> > I would be happy if we could remove all three of this annoying points.
> 
> Exactly the same thought here. Also:
> 
> int i = ...;
> char[] x = "You pressed button " + i;
> 
> Oops... doesn't compile. To fix it:
> 
> import std.string;
> 
> int i = ...;
> char[] x = "You pressed button " + toString(i);
> 
> But wait, if that piece of code is inside a method of a class, than 
> (WHY?) it thinks it's the toString() method, so you end up writing:
> 
> import std.string;
> 
> int i = ...;
> char[] x = "You pressed button " + std.string.toString(i);
> 
> Those are the cases I find D not nice.

yarp i concur. phobos oughtta have a function asStr that converts everything to string and concats. then you write:

auto x = asStr("You pressed button ", i, " with your pinky toe");