On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 11:17:41AM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 08/06/14 11:02, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > >Why would we ban uniform!T from accepting dchar? I see no reason for that. > > > >Let's just fix the bug by tweaking the internal check. > > Yea, I came to the same conclusion while working on it. :-) > > The solution I have is (i) in uniform!"[]" check that !is(ResultType > == dchar) before checking the condition for calling > uniform!ResultType, and (ii) inside uniform!T, place > > static if (is(T == dchar)) > { > return uniform!"[]"(T.min, T.max, rng); > }
Doesn't wchar need to have a similar specialization too? Aren't some values of wchar invalid as well? T -- MS Windows: 64-bit rehash of 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition.