Issue 9654 - Template function cannot take string by ref T[len]

[9rnsr]

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9654

[yebblies]

Why are the tests in testbounds, not one of the template files?

[9rnsr]

Because, such conversion (from string to ref const char[dim]) is a specialized case of issue 3652 in IMO.

Note: Issue 3652 is the conversion from slice to ref static array type with compile-time known boundaries (e.g. T[lwr .. upr] -> ref T[upr - lwr] ), and that is supported from few days ago.

[yebblies]

This issue doesn't involve bounds checking or slicing, it is about string literals and template argument deduction. I don't think the benefit of being next to the other testcase outweighs the downside of being in the wrong test file.

[9rnsr]

Ok, I moved test to test/runnable/template9.d.

[yebblies]

Thanks, merged.

As a side note, inserting the test cases randomly into the test files is much less likely to create merge conflicts than appending at the bottom.