• Blandger (19/19) Jul 13 2004 Porting java code I incidentally stuck with such an easy and stupid prob...
• Thomas Kuehne (9/25) Jul 13 2004 It's like trying the following in Java:
• Arcane Jill (12/16) Jul 13 2004 That's not built into D like it is in Java. But you can do the same thin...

"Blandger" <zeroman aport.ru> writes:

Porting java code I incidentally stuck with such an easy and stupid problem.

Java uses Object variable as 'universal type' for storing 'everything
(although it's not a typesafe).
How legally to assign variable value of some type to the Object variable in
D?

Something like on java:
-------------
 Object [] table = new Object[n];
 String key = "some key";
 table [0] = key; // legal code
...
and vice versa
------------

But for D I stuck:
...
   Object[] obj = new Object[10];
   wchar[] str = "fff";
   obj[0] = cast(Object)str; // error: cannot cast from wchar[] to Object

What's I make wrong?

Thomas Kuehne <eisvogel users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Blandger wrote:
 
 Something like on java:
 -------------
  Object [] table = new Object[n];
  String key = "some key";
  table [0] = key; // legal code
 ...
 and vice versa
 ------------
 
 But for D I stuck:
 ...
    Object[] obj = new Object[10];
    wchar[] str = "fff";
    obj[0] = cast(Object)str; // error: cannot cast from wchar[] to Object
 
 What's I make wrong?

It's like trying the following in Java:
Object o   = new Object();
int i  = 1;
o = (Object)i;


You have to use "wrapper" classes similar to 
java.lang.String and java.lang.reflect.Array.

Thomas

Arcane Jill <Arcane_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <cd1ahm$170b$2 digitaldaemon.com>, Blandger says...

   Object[] obj = new Object[10];
   wchar[] str = "fff";
   obj[0] = cast(Object)str; // error: cannot cast from wchar[] to Object

What's I make wrong?

That's not built into D like it is in Java. But you can do the same thing by
hand, like this:







Then you can do



(And of course there's always the old type-unsafe C fallback of void*).
Arcane Jill