Bug 14277 – Compile-time array casting error - ugly error report

Hey, look at this code: http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/ce4c5230ac18 If not working:: static ubyte[] u = new char[9999]; The error report is kinda ugly, isn't it?

wow! i like it! no, really, it's cute!

Created attachment 1491 trim output of long expressions as far as i know, `Expression::toChars()` is not using in anything vital, only in diagnostic output. so i trimming it's result to arbitrary limit of 200 chars. maybe it's better to fix array literal output, but this is easier, and it will additionaly limit output of other long expressions, which are unreadable anyway if they reaches that size.

p.s. this can ruing long utf-8 literals, though. not that i really care.

this also ruing things like `typeof(smth).stringof[$-2..$] == "[]"` for example. so it's unusable.

@RazvanN7 created dlang/dmd pull request #13651 "Fix Issue 14277 - Compile-time array casting error - ugly error report" fixing this issue: - Fix Issue 14277 - Compile-time array casting error - ugly error report https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13651

dlang/dmd pull request #13651 "Fix Issue 14277 - Compile-time array casting error - ugly error report" was merged into master: - f08f9c1df2a8b49d2a7245f3c518653bf4b21a5d by RazvanN7: Fix Issue 14277 - Compile-time array casting error - ugly error report https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13651