Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:38:53AM +0100, Don wrote:
Do NOT use toStringNow. std.metastrings is mostly obsolete -- it
predates CTFE.
All I wanted there was a quick conversion. At first, I wrote
octal!(to!string(my_integer));
but it didn't compile...
In any case, redoing it is simple enough, but if you don't want people
using the solution in the library, it should at least be marked in the
docs.
That reply was to bearophile, who said he was minimizing the number of
templates. But since he was using toStringNow, the code created a huge
number of templates.