Bug 17149 – to!int("42", 16, LetterCase.lower) does not compile

This code does not compile. void main() { import std.ascii; import std.conv; assert(to!int("42", 16) == 0x42); assert(to!int("42", 16, LetterCase.lower) == 0x42); assert(to!int("42", 16, LetterCase.upper) == 0x42); } The first to!int call works, but the other two do not. It is clear from the documentation for std.conv.to that they should. And std.conv.to has this in its unit tests: assert(to!string(Int(0x1234BCD), 16u, LetterCase.upper) == "1234BCD"); assert(to!string(Int(0x1234AF), 16u, LetterCase.lower) == "1234af"); So, the problem is likely related to access levels in some way, with required functions probably being private. Regardless, the results is that you can't currently give std.conv.to!int a LetterCase argument, forcing all hex literals to be uppercase. It wouldn't surprise me if this is a regression, but I'm not in a good position to test that at the moment.

The letter case is only interesting in the "int2string" way. I don't see the point of allowing it as parameter in the "string2int" way. The "string2int" way handles mixed lower and upper case. void main() { import std.ascii; import std.conv; assert(to!int("AbCde", 16) == 0xabcde); assert(to!int("aBcdE", 16) == 0xabcde); }

Hmmm. Well, when I read the documentation, I understood that you had to specify upper or lowercase and not that it accepted both. Rereading through the documentation though, I see that it's talking specifically about converting _from_ int to string rather than the other way around. So, I guess that I misread the documentation.