• Red (9/9) Dec 19 2012 Looking at the Kindle spec there appears to be an error in the
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= (7/17) Dec 19 2012 Here as well:

"Red" <resmith lavabit.com> writes:

Looking at the Kindle spec there appears to be an error in the 
section for structs called Assignment Overload.

S* opAssign (ref const S s) {
    a = s.a;
}

gives an error:
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (this) of type S to S*

S opAssign (ref const S s) {

does compile.

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 12/19/2012 09:57 PM, Red wrote:
 Looking at the Kindle spec

Here as well:

   http://dlang.org/struct.html#AssignOverload

 there appears to be an error in the section
 for structs called Assignment Overload.

 S* opAssign (ref const S s) {
 a = s.a;

Of course, there is also the return statement:

     return this;

 }

 gives an error:
 Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (this) of type S to S*

 S opAssign (ref const S s) {

 does compile.

You are right. The documentation is wrong.

Ali