Yesterday, I was working on a socket code and wrote this:
this(string host, uint port) {
socket.connect(new InternetAddress(host, port));
}
and got this:
server.d(109): Error: constructor std.socket.InternetAddress.this
() is not callable using argument types (string, uint)
server.d(109): Error: no constructor for InternetAddress
It took me several minutes to realize my real mistake: I wrote
"uint" when I meant "ushort". The error message was less than
helpful because I was quite certain this was how it worked, but
it was complaining about this() rather than this(string, ushort),
so maybe I forgot how to construct this thing.
The error messages can catch simple spelling errors with a
distance of one edit from the correct name, but here it couldn't
catch a type mismatch with a similar distance of one from the
real thing.
If it did that, I would have spent 5 seconds on this rather than
5 minutes.
