https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11782

           Summary: format pointer to range prints range
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: monarchdodra@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from monarchdodra@gmail.com 2013-12-19 13:56:13 PST ---
//----
import std.string;
void main()
{
    auto  a  = iota(0, 10);
    auto  p  = &a;
    writefln("%s", a);
    writefln("%s", p);
}
//----
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
//----

This is not documented behavior. The documented behavior is simply: "Pointers are formatted as hex integers."

The current behavior (pointer to ranges prints the range) makes no sense to me, and I don't see why a pointer to such a type would get a special treatment.

I think this behavior is wrong, and should be removed to simply treat the pointer as a pointer.

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Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh@gmail.com> 2013-12-19 14:01:16 PST ---
(In reply to comment #0)

> This is not documented behavior. The documented behavior is simply: "Pointers are formatted as hex integers."

The fun is that a pointer to a range is a range. It naturally supports all of primitives.


> I think this behavior is wrong, and should be removed to simply treat the pointer as a pointer.

Maybe.

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--- Comment #2 from monarchdodra@gmail.com 2013-12-19 14:09:07 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > This is not documented behavior. The documented behavior is simply: "Pointers are formatted as hex integers."
> 
> The fun is that a pointer to a range is a range. It naturally supports all of primitives.

Almost ;)

https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11779

//----
import std.string;
void main()
{
    auto  a  = iota(0, 10).array();
    auto  p  = &a;
    writefln("%s", a);
    writefln("%s", p);
}
//----
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
7FFF0ABA5FA0
//----

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--- Comment #3 from monarchdodra@gmail.com 2013-12-19 14:12:51 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > This is not documented behavior. The documented behavior is simply: "Pointers are formatted as hex integers."
> 
> The fun is that a pointer to a range is a range. It naturally supports all of primitives.

Also (but off topic here), while the slicing operator is still supported, the
slice-able *trait* becomes lost, as the returned type (R) won't match the used
type (R*).

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