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/[email protected] > > > >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 -- Being able to learn is a great learning; being able to unlearn is a greater learning.
