string literal string and immutable(char)* overload ambiguity
Nicholas Wilson
iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 31 14:13:57 UTC 2018
is there any particular reason why
void foo(string a) {}
void foo(immutable(char)* b) {}
void bar()
{
foo("baz");
}
result in
Error: foo called with argument types (string) matches both:
foo(string a)
and:
foo(immutable(char)* b)
especially given the pointer overload is almost always
void foo(immutable(char)* b)
{
foo(b[0 .. strlen(b)]);
}
and if I really want to call the pointer variant I can with
foo("baz".ptr);
but I can't call the string overload with a literal without
creating a temp.
I think we should make string literals prefer string arguments.
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