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?

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.

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.