• H. S. Teoh (6/6) Apr 24 2012 What's the correct way of implementing formattedRead support for
• Kenji Hara (6/11) Apr 24 2012 Unfortunately, there is not yet general way.
• H. S. Teoh (9/19) Apr 24 2012 [...]
• bearophile (6/11) Apr 24 2012 Maybe do you want to open this discussion in the main D

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

What's the correct way of implementing formattedRead support for
user-defined types? I tried overloading the unformatValue() template,
but for some reason the compiler doesn't seem to be picking it up.


T

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"Kenji Hara" <k.hara.pg gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 21:50:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 What's the correct way of implementing formattedRead support for
 user-defined types? I tried overloading the unformatValue() 
 template,
 but for some reason the compiler doesn't seem to be picking it 
 up.

Unfortunately, there is not yet general way.
The definition of unformatValue for user-defined type in 
different module isn't considered by std.format module. D's 
module system is closed in basic.

Kenji Hara

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:42:25AM +0200, Kenji Hara wrote:
 On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 21:50:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
What's the correct way of implementing formattedRead support for
user-defined types? I tried overloading the unformatValue()
template,
but for some reason the compiler doesn't seem to be picking it up.

 
 Unfortunately, there is not yet general way.
 The definition of unformatValue for user-defined type in different
 module isn't considered by std.format module. D's module system is
 closed in basic.

[...]

Does it make sense to add a fromString() method to user-defined types
for this? D's toString support is awesome (you can basically call
to!string on just about anything and it works). It would be nice to have
similar support for the reverse operation.


T

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Rexroth

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

H. S. Teoh:

 What's the correct way of implementing formattedRead support for
 user-defined types? I tried overloading the unformatValue() 
 template,
 but for some reason the compiler doesn't seem to be picking it 
 up.

Maybe do you want to open this discussion in the main D
newsgroup? I think this is not a very important issue, but it's a
nice thing to have.

Bye,
bearophile