On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Charles Hixson <charleshi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Is it possible to use a typedefed variable with library classes? > > In particular, what I've done is: > > typedef int TestType; > TestType t; > File f; > > t = 42; > f.write (t); > > And the response I get is the compiler asking whether I want to write bytes > or a long. > > Am I doing something grossly wrong? Or is typedef just broken? Or is it > really supposed to work that way for some not-understood reason? > (alias works fine...but this seems to make typedef basically useless. Unless > there's a way of adding functions to the library classes [like file] so that > they'll understand how to cast the typedefed variable.) >
I've never found a use for typedef myself. I don't think it's used much, so it could be that it's a special case that Andrei didn't consider when re-writing write() [at least I'm assuming you're talking D2, based on the error message]. Or it could be that it is a bug with the compiler. But either way I think no one uses it, so it's likely to flush out lots of corner cases. --bb
