Better printing of class instances that don't have a toString

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bearophile_hugs reported this on 2014-11-04T10:45:58Z

Transfered from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13680

Description

This program shows the current default printing of class instances (dmd 2.067alpha):


class Foo {}
void main() {
    import std.stdio;
    Foo f;
    f.writeln;
    f = new Foo;
    writeln(f, " ", cast(void*)f);
}


Output:

null
test.Foo 2001FE0


But perhaps it's better for D writeln to print class instances (that don't have a toString) more like Java:

test.Foo@null
test.Foo@2001FE0 2001FE0


This is useful in debugging and code development, because the address allows to see what class instances are equal.