Bug 7270 – Eliminate needless qualifiers in `TypeInfo.toString`

import std.stdio; void main() { alias const(const(int)[]) T; writeln(typeid(T)); writeln(T.stringof); pragma(msg, T.stringof); } Output, DMD 2.058head: const(int[]) const(const(int)[]) const(int[]) Expected output: const(int[]) const(int[]) const(int[])

This is TypeInfo.toString problem. import std.stdio; void main() { alias const(const(int)[]) T; pragma(msg, "1: ", T.stringof); writeln("2: ", typeid(T)); writeln("3: ", T.stringof); } Output: ---- 1: const(int[]) // pragma + T.stringof 2: const(const(int)[]) // writeln + typeid(T) (== TypeInfo.toString()) 3: const(int[]) // writeln + T.stringof Changed the title.

And, this is druntime issue, not dmd's.

*** Issue 4741 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

(In reply to comment #3) > *** Issue 4741 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** See my comment in 4741 for more examples: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4741#c0

`const(const(int)[])` is the same as `const(int[])`. The latter notation is just shorter. So this in an enhancement request to shorten type names by eliminating needless qualifiers in `TypeInfo.toString`.

(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > *** Issue 4741 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** > > See my comment in 4741 for more examples: > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4741#c0 Issue 4741 has no connection with this one.

A tentative fix can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2374

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