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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 5501] New: Variant wrongly assumes that an object's length property returns a size_t

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           Summary: Variant wrongly assumes that an object's length
                    property returns a size_t
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: dransic free.fr



The following code doesn't compile. I hit the problem when using
std.datetime.Interval (which length returns a Duration).

import std.variant;

struct Foo {
    double length() {
        return double.init;
    }
}

unittest {
    Foo foo;
    Variant v = foo;
}

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Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei metalanguage.com> changed:

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PST ---
This is by design. The length name is special and defined to return size_t
compulsively. A possible solution would be to rename std.datetime.Interval.
Will cc jmdavis.

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 This is by design. The length name is special and defined to return size_t
 compulsively. A possible solution would be to rename std.datetime.Interval.
 Will cc jmdavis.


I agree. But that makes the length property a quasi-keyword and I think it
should be better documented, even if it is already used as such in practice.

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