• "Jacques =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlciI=?= <jacques.mueller gmx.de> (5/5) Feb 22 2015 I tried to override the opCast operator in a class to be able to
• Adam D. Ruppe (7/10) Feb 22 2015 to!string actually forwards to a special function, "string
• "Jacques =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlciI=?= <jacques.mueller gmx.de> (3/6) Feb 22 2015 Thanks, that's good to know.

"Jacques =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlciI=?= <jacques.mueller gmx.de> writes:

I tried to override the opCast operator in a class to be able to 
explicitly convert the class to a string, but to!string just 
returns the name of the class.
Do opCast and to! together not work with strings and does that 
mean that i have to use alias this?

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 13:04:56 UTC, Jacques Müller wrote:
 I tried to override the opCast operator in a class to be able 
 to explicitly convert the class to a string, but to!string just 
 returns the name of the class.

to!string actually forwards to a special function, "string 
toString() {}" which you'll need to implement and override from 
the base class.

It might need to be const too

override string toString() const { }

the compiler will tell you.

"Jacques =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlciI=?= <jacques.mueller gmx.de> writes:

On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 13:15:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 to!string actually forwards to a special function, "string 
 toString() {}" which you'll need to implement and override from 
 the base class.

Thanks, that's good to know.
I was just wondering why my code wasn't working correctly.