• bobef (15/15) Feb 24 2006 ============= a.d ================
• Jarrett Billingsley (6/21) Feb 24 2006 Yeah, I hate this too. I don't know why there aren't overloads for the
• Jarrett Billingsley (3/23) Feb 24 2006 BTW, you can just use 16u as the radix in this case instead of cast(uint...
• bobef (3/29) Feb 24 2006 My point was that it complains even after I tell it that 1 is long and

bobef <bobef lessequal.com> writes:

============= a.d ================

import std.string;

void main()
{
	char[] a=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),16); //error
	char[] b=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),cast(uint)16); //no error
}

/*
a.d(5): function std.string.toString called with argument types:
         (long,int)
matches both:
         std.string.toString(long,uint)
and:
         std.string.toString(ulong,uint)
*/

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"bobef" <bobef lessequal.com> wrote in message 
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 ============= a.d ================

 import std.string;

 void main()
 {
 char[] a=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),16); //error
 char[] b=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),cast(uint)16); //no error
 }

 /*
 a.d(5): function std.string.toString called with argument types:
         (long,int)
 matches both:
         std.string.toString(long,uint)
 and:
         std.string.toString(ulong,uint)
 */

Yeah, I hate this too.  I don't know why there aren't overloads for the 
radix toString() for types other than long and ulong.  Especially when you 
do it on an int and it gets sign-extended so you get something like

FFFFFFFFFE0385AF 

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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 "bobef" <bobef lessequal.com> wrote in message 
 news:dtmn97$154e$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 ============= a.d ================

 import std.string;

 void main()
 {
 char[] a=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),16); //error
 char[] b=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),cast(uint)16); //no error
 }

 /*
 a.d(5): function std.string.toString called with argument types:
         (long,int)
 matches both:
         std.string.toString(long,uint)
 and:
         std.string.toString(ulong,uint)
 */


BTW, you can just use 16u as the radix in this case instead of cast(uint)16. 

bobef <bobef lessequal.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
 "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> wrote in message 
 news:dtnq6q$h80$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 "bobef" <bobef lessequal.com> wrote in message 
 news:dtmn97$154e$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 ============= a.d ================

 import std.string;

 void main()
 {
 char[] a=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),16); //error
 char[] b=std.string.toString(cast(long)(1),cast(uint)16); //no error
 }

 /*
 a.d(5): function std.string.toString called with argument types:
         (long,int)
 matches both:
         std.string.toString(long,uint)
 and:
         std.string.toString(ulong,uint)
 */


 
 BTW, you can just use 16u as the radix in this case instead of cast(uint)16. 
 
 

My point was that it complains even after I tell it that 1 is long and 
there are no two cases for the second argument...