• 0ffh (20/20) Oct 16 2007 Hi!

0ffh <spam frankhirsch.net> writes:

Hi!

I declare and initialise two Variants:

   Variant va=1;
   Variant vb=-2;

This works as expected:

   printf("%i\n",va.get!(int));
   printf("%i\n",vb.get!(int));

Here be dragons at runtime:

   printf("%i\n",(va+vb).get!(int));
   -> Error: Variant: attempting to use incompatible types ulong and int

   printf("%i\n",(va*vb).get!(int));
   -> Error: Variant: attempting to use incompatible types ulong and int

Why the heck "ulong"? Makes no sense to me...

printf("%ul\n",(va+vb).get!(ulong)); // of course this is nonsense for -1
printf("%ul\n",(va*vb).get!(ulong)); // of course this is nonsense for -2

This, erm, "works", but I wouldn't...

printf("%i\n",(va+vb).get!(ulong));
printf("%i\n",(va*vb).get!(ulong));

I made a bug report, I hope I made nothing wrong (first-timer there)...

Regards, Frank