[dmd-beta] Fighting with 2.059 and not quite winning

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, April 05, 2012 21:15:28 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, April 06, 2012 06:59:58 Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:43:43 +0300, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > On Friday, April 06, 2012 06:26:19 Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> > >> The first problem was due to std.conv not being pure-friendly. I don't
> > >> know why text(1) or to!string(1) aren't pure. (I've left this alone for
> > >> now to figure out later.)
> > > 
> > > They never have been.
> > 
> > Yes; this is not a regression, but the enforcements of
> > const-pure- at safe-nothrow of the struct methods are forcing me to use only
> > pure/nothrow functions all the way. And I can't even do a number-to-string
> > conversion.
> 
> That's enforced now? If so, then the lack of purity for string conversions
> does become a serious issue which must be sorted out ASAP. Still, while I
> can understand why classes would enforce them (though last time I looked at
> Object, it hadn't marked them as such even though that's planned), I don't
> know why structs would.

Okay. I don't know why you think that it's enforced. I just tried having an 
impure toString in both a struct and a class, and it worked just fine for both.

- Jonathan M Davis