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.


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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:

> 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