On Wednesday, 17 May 2023 at 08:00:17 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote:
If you want auto-conversion, you should be more explicit:
```d
float opCast() { }
```
because if you return "auto" it is not the highest-prio fit and
therefore not chosen.
If you have multiple choices, you still don't need to use
On Friday, 12 May 2023 at 15:00:48 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
```d
struct Fraction {
int num, den;
this(int n, int d)
{
num = n;
den = d;
}
// Cast Expression : convert float value of fraction
auto opCast(T :
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 21:04:05 UTC, Inkrementator wrote:
Open question to everybody: What you're opinion on using opCast
for this? Since it's a type conversion, it seems fitting to me.
Can't converting without explicitly specifying in D is a big
shortcoming in my opinion. There is such a
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 10:57:13PM +, Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 20:25:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 07:56:10PM +, Chris Piker via
> > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
> > I also suffer from left/right confusion, and
On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 20:25:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 07:56:10PM +, Chris Piker via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
I also suffer from left/right confusion, and always have to
pause to think about which is the right(!) word before uttering
it.
Oh, I though
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 07:56:10PM +, Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[...]
> My problem with the terms lvalue and rvalue is much more basic, and is
> just a personal one that only affects probably 0.1% of people. I just
> can't keep left vs. right straight in real life. "Right"
On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 16:01:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
x = y;
^ ^
| |
lvalue rvalue
...
// This is OK:
x = y + 1;
// This is not OK:
(y + 1) = x;
Thanks for the clear explanation.
My problem with the
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 03:24:48PM +, Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[...]
> It's off topic, but I forget why managing memory for rvalues* was
> pushed onto the programmer and not handled by the compiler. I'm sure
> there is a good reason but it does seem like a symmetry breaking
On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 14:42:50 UTC, Inkrementator wrote:
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 21:12:22 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
https://gist.github.com/run-dlang/9b7aec72710b1108fc8277789776962a
Thanks for posting that. Reading over the code I'm reminded that
I never cared whether something was
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 21:12:22 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
On the other hand, your first suggestion of using opCast() does
seem like a reasonable choice to me. Can you provide a short
code snippet using opCast to achieve the same result?
I've never used it, and particularly I know that I
On 5/7/23 13:44, Chris Piker wrote:
> to fix the problem I
> just delete the alias this line from dpq2, see what unit tests and app
> code it breaks, then fix each of those.
Yes but I neglected the lvalue/rvalue issue. In some cases the code
won't compile if the return type of the newly
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 21:04:05 UTC, Inkrementator wrote:
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 18:19:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
alias this is for implicit type conversions, which can be
achieved explicitly as well.
Open question to everybody: What you're opinion on using opCast
for this? Since it's a
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 18:19:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
alias this is for implicit type conversions, which can be
achieved explicitly as well.
Open question to everybody: What you're opinion on using opCast
for this? Since it's a type conversion, it seems fitting to me.
And another
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 18:19:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
auto main() {
auto c = new C();
// The same type conversion is now explicit:
foo(c.asIntPtr);
}
Hi Ali
Ah, very clear explanation, thanks! So basically to fix the
problem I just delete the alias this line from dpq2, see
On 5/7/23 10:55, Chris Piker wrote:
> According to dmd 2.103, alias this is
> deprecated for classes, so I'd like to correct the problem.
alias this is for implicit type conversions, which can be achieved
explicitly as well. Given the following old code:
class C {
int* result;
alias
Hi D
One of the dependencies for my project has a class that makes use
of the `alias x this` construct. According to dmd 2.103, alias
this is deprecated for classes, so I'd like to correct the
problem.
Is there a specific paragraph or two that I can read to find out
what is the
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