• Kramer (10/10) Mar 03 2005 For the following code:
• Regan Heath (18/29) Mar 03 2005 Yes.

Kramer <Kramer_member pathlink.com> writes:

For the following code:

#import std.stream;

#void main()




I get this error: StreamWriteTest.d(5): function std.stream.Stream.write
overloads void(char[]s) and void(wchar[]s) both match argument list for write

Is there a clean way to fix this?  Do I have to cast this string?

-Kramer

"Regan Heath" <regan netwin.co.nz> writes:

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:48:24 +0000 (UTC), Kramer  
<Kramer_member pathlink.com> wrote:
 For the following code:

 #import std.stream;

 #void main()




 I get this error: StreamWriteTest.d(5): function std.stream.Stream.write
 overloads void(char[]s) and void(wchar[]s) both match argument list for  
 write

 Is there a clean way to fix this?  Do I have to cast this string?

Yes.

Possible solutions (previously suggested)

0- Do nothing, cast is sufficient.

1- Allowing a prefix to the string i.e.


(denoting that it's a wchar)

2- Where collisions occur assume a literal string is char[].

3- Decide the type based on the contents.

I have no problem with (0), (1) is simply another way to express the same  
thing which is the programmer stating "this literal is an x[]".

(2) might have hidden bug consequences in the (unlikely?) event there are  
2 functions of the same name taking different char types, doing different  
tasks.

(3) is like (2) except it's additionally optimisation, after all UTF-8,  
16, and 32 can all represent all the information, they just do it with  
differing byte usage.

Regan