• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (37/37) Apr 20 2016 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15942

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15942

          Issue ID: 15942
           Summary: bogus "cannot implicitly convert expression" error
                    when using vector notation to from immutable to
                    mutable
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: rejects-valid
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: ag0aep6g gmail.com

This is rejected, but should be accepted:
----
void main()
{
    string s = [1, 2, 3];
    auto v = new void[3];
    v[] = s[]; /* Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (s[]) of type
string to void[] */
}
----

It's accepted with an intermediate step:
----
void main()
{
    string s = [1, 2, 3];
    auto v = new void[3];
    immutable(void)[] intermediate = s;
    v[] = intermediate[];
}
----

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