Cannot instantiate a std.container.Array of a class with a init() function member.

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:26:40PM +0000, Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 15:46:28 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio wrote:
> >Taken from
> >http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gjrbmskictrbcyeduqgu@forum.dlang.org
> >
> >trying to instantiate an Array!MyClass fails with a rather obscure
> >error message if the MyClass has a member function "void init()":
> >
> >http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/16d202b7124d
> >
> >Is this a std library bug, or should this be considered a mistake on
> >the library user side to name a member function "init"?
> 
> It's kind of ridiculous that the compiler doesn't complain about this,
> considering that defining an init member causes an error that you
> would have no idea how to fix unless you already knew about this
> issue.

I say file the bug against the compiler, not the library. The compiler
should reject members named 'init' because .init already has a special
meaning in the language.


T

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