• Charles Hixson (16/16) Jan 09 2013 ...$ dmd -unittest bptree.d
• Charles Hixson (4/20) Jan 10 2013 dnLftLnk is an array.
• Era Scarecrow (10/13) Jan 10 2013 It's an array. Fixed arrays have a numeric value inside the
• Charles Hixson (2/12) Jan 10 2013 Thanks. Good to have that guess confirmed.

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:

...$ dmd -unittest bptree.d
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (this.dnLftLnk) of type 
BPNode[7LU] to bptree.BPNode

Type BPNode is only declared once, although the error message refers to:
if (ndx == -1)	node = dnLftLnk;
a place where it is an out parameter in a function declared:
bool search (BPKey key, out BPNode node, out int ndx)
{
...
}

bptree.d is the name of the file that contains both the declaration and 
the function.

The compiler version is:
...$ dmd
DMD64 D Compiler v2.060

The environment is linux (debian testing).

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:

dnLftLnk is an array.

(It's still a confusing error message.  I assume that "[7LU]" indicates 
that it's an array, but if so, I don't know where it's documented.)

On 01/09/2013 06:36 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
 ....$ dmd -unittest bptree.d
 Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (this.dnLftLnk) of type
 BPNode[7LU] to bptree.BPNode

 Type BPNode is only declared once, although the error message refers to:
 if (ndx == -1) node = dnLftLnk;
 a place where it is an out parameter in a function declared:
 bool search (BPKey key, out BPNode node, out int ndx)
 {
 ....
 }

 bptree.d is the name of the file that contains both the declaration and
 the function.

 The compiler version is:
 ....$ dmd
 DMD64 D Compiler v2.060

 The environment is linux (debian testing).

"Era Scarecrow" <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> writes:

On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 21:53:27 UTC, Charles Hixson 
wrote:
 (It's still a confusing error message.  I assume that "[7LU]" 
 indicates that it's an array, but if so, I don't know where 
 it's documented.)

  It's an array. Fixed arrays have a numeric value inside the 
brackets, the LU is because it's a 64bit compiler/machine (size_t 
being long), otherwise it would say [7u]. I have similar problems 
sometimes, if the sizes match perfectly you won't have problems 
(and will copy), if they don't you can make a slice out of it and 
pass it.

  I'm not sure if it's specifically documented, more like how it's 
seem to the compiler (for type checking).

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:

On 01/10/2013 02:15 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
 On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 21:53:27 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
 (It's still a confusing error message. I assume that "[7LU]" indicates
 that it's an array, but if so, I don't know where it's documented.)

 It's an array. Fixed arrays have a numeric value inside the brackets,
 the LU is because it's a 64bit compiler/machine (size_t being long),
 otherwise it would say [7u]. I have similar problems sometimes, if the
 sizes match perfectly you won't have problems (and will copy), if they
 don't you can make a slice out of it and pass it.

 I'm not sure if it's specifically documented, more like how it's seem to
 the compiler (for type checking).

Thanks.  Good to have that guess confirmed.