Implicit conversion for bigint array append

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bearophile_hugs reported this on 2013-05-03T16:43:51Z

Transferred from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10025

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• yebblies

Description

import std.bigint: BigInt;
void main() {
    auto p = new BigInt[1];
    p[0] = BigInt(1); // OK
    p[0] = 1;         // OK
    p ~= BigInt(1);   // OK
    p ~= 1;           // Error
}



DMD 2.063beta:

test.d(7): Error: cannot append type int to type BigInt[]

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yebblies commented on 2013-08-02T21:27:07Z

>     p[0] = 1;         // OK

This is assignment, so it works.

>    p ~= 1;           // Error

This would be implicit construction of a BigInt from an int.

That makes this an enhancement request for implicit construction on append.