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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 6639] New: Difference beetwen "foo" and "foo"c

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           Summary: Difference beetwen "foo" and "foo"c
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: zeljko.grk gmail.com



After thinking a bit more I have concluded its important consistency issue. So
I reposted it as separate issue.

import std.stdio;

void f(S)(S str){
    writeln(str);
}

alias f!(string) fc;
alias f!(wstring) fc;

void main(){
    fc("foo");      // L11

//~     fc("foo"c);     // works
//~     auto s = "foo";
//~     fc(s);       // works
}

//~ Compilation (dmd 2.055) breaks with message:

//~ bug.d(11): Error: function alias bug.f called with argument types:
//~     ((string))
//~ matches both:
//~     bug.f!(string).f(string str)
//~ and:
//~     bug.f!(immutable(wchar)[]).f(immutable(wchar)[] str)

Maybe lexer should annotate string literal without StringPostfix according
source code format?

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yebblies <yebblies gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |yebblies gmail.com
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE



It should work the same for function calls as it does for type deduction: an
untyped string literal should default to immutable(char)[].

Fortunately there's already a patch for this.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 2367 ***

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Sorry for  duplication.

My point is maybe we don’t need unannotated string literal out of lexer.
Maybe c is better default, but we need simple rule.

Confess I’m not aware of all consequences. 
Something to think about, maybe?

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 My point is maybe we don’t need unannotated string literal out of lexer.
 Maybe c is better default, but we need simple rule.
 
 Confess I’m not aware of all consequences. 
 Something to think about, maybe?


We actually do need it to be initially untyped.  If every string literal was
implicitly utf-8, the following functions could not be called with a literal:
void fun(wstring s);
void fun(dstring s);
void fun(const(char)* s);

What is important is that a default type can be automatically used, and it
already works this way some of the time.
auto x = "blah blah"; // x is typed as string

Extending this default type to function calls seems natural to me.

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