Bug 9489 – writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor

Status
REOPENED
Severity
normal
Priority
P3
Component
phobos
Product
D
Version
D2
Platform
x86
OS
Windows
Creation time
2013-02-09T04:52:58Z
Last change time
2024-12-01T16:16:24Z
Keywords
rejects-valid
Assigned to
No Owner
Creator
bearophile_hugs
See also
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3248
Moved to GitHub: phobos#9950 →

Comments

Comment #0 by bearophile_hugs — 2013-02-09T04:52:58Z
import std.stdio: writeln; import std.conv: text; import std.typecons: scoped; class Foo { int x; this(int x_) { this.x = x_; } override string toString() { return text(x); } } void main() { auto f = scoped!Foo(100); writeln(f.x); // OK writeln(f); // Error typeof(scoped!Foo(1))[10] foos; foreach (i, ref fi; foos) fi.x = i * 10; writeln(foos); // Error } dmd 2.062beta gives: ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(709): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(414): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(437): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(451): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(463): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(475): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(489): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(498): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(714): Error: template instance std.format.formattedWrite!(LockingTextWriter, char, Scoped!(Foo)) error instantiating ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(1620): instantiated from here: write!(Scoped!(Foo),char) temp.d(12): instantiated from here: writeln!(Scoped!(Foo)) ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(714): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(1620): Error: template instance std.stdio.File.write!(Scoped!(Foo),char) error instantiating temp.d(12): instantiated from here: writeln!(Scoped!(Foo)) ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(1620): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable temp.d(12): Error: template instance std.stdio.writeln!(Scoped!(Foo)) error instantiating temp.d(12): Error: struct std.typecons.scoped!(Foo, int).scoped.Scoped!(Foo).Scoped is not copyable because it is annotated with @disable ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(1821): Error: static assert (isInputRange!(Scoped!(Foo)[])) is false ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(1789): instantiated from here: formatValue!(LockingTextWriter, Scoped!(Foo)[], char) ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(2953): instantiated from here: formatValue!(LockingTextWriter, Scoped!(Foo)[10u], char) ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\format.d(416): instantiated from here: formatGeneric!(LockingTextWriter, Scoped!(Foo)[10u], char) ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(735): ... (1 instantiations, -v to show) ... ...\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(1620): instantiated from here: write!(Scoped!(Foo)[10u],char) temp.d(16): instantiated from here: writeln!(Scoped!(Foo)[10u])
Comment #1 by andrej.mitrovich — 2013-02-09T05:44:27Z
Unrelated to scoped classes, the root cause is that writeln() takes its arguments by value: import std.stdio; struct S { @disable this(this); } void main() { S s; writeln(s); // error }
Comment #2 by andrej.mitrovich — 2013-02-18T20:10:35Z
As a workaround you can use this: import std.stdio; import std.string; struct Wrap(T) { T* t; auto ref opDispatch(string s, T...)(T args) { mixin(format("return t.%s(args);", s)); } } auto wrap(T)(T* t) { return Wrap!T(t); } struct S { @disable this(this); int x; float y; string toString() { return format("S { x: %s, y: %s }", x, y); } } void main() { S s = S(1, 2.0); writeln(wrap(&s)); } (std.typecons.Proxy doesn't seem to help here, it won't work with pointers) Generally speaking this is a gigantic problem to fix. Pretty much everything in Phobos expects structs to be copyable. Phobos could try to take arguments by ref (or rather auto ref for compatibility), but this would have to be applied to all functions. I think the safest thing we can do is ask the user to use this sort of wrapper type. Maybe writeln/format could be the exception to the rule and take all arguments by auto ref and then internally use wrappers for @disable structs to pass them to other internal formatting functions. This would make it convenient to print @disable structs since it's common to print things..
Comment #3 by hsteoh — 2013-03-15T10:58:55Z
This issue is not just limited to printing. Structs that have @disabled this(this) are currently highly-crippled, because almost everything in Phobos assumes that structs can be passed by value. A struct range with @disabled this(this) is unusable with any range function unless you do something really ugly like (&range).cycle(), etc., which is a kind of hack (taking advantage of D's automatic dereference when a pointer is used with the . operator). Auto ref would solve a lot of these problems.
Comment #4 by bugzilla — 2021-03-28T10:20:26Z
*** Issue 20632 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment #5 by dlang-bot — 2021-05-08T14:19:49Z
@berni44 created dlang/phobos pull request #8055 "Fix partly Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor" mentioning this issue: - Fix partly Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8055
Comment #6 by dlang-bot — 2021-05-12T07:42:06Z
dlang/phobos pull request #8055 "Fix Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor" was merged into master: - ef30be7c7376cb4aef99d851234c1197f290cea7 by berni44: Fix Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8055
Comment #7 by dlang-bot — 2021-05-18T06:49:46Z
dlang/phobos pull request #8092 "Revert "Fix Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor"" was merged into master: - 116d33b63516c596f85b84793812cd97cb37578d by Iain Buclaw: Revert "Fix Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor" This reverts commit 838da632cbaf4a1888dd7a76754be9fb50520e25. https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8092
Comment #8 by ibuclaw — 2021-05-18T07:46:45Z
Fix was reverted.
Comment #9 by dlang-bot — 2021-05-18T22:54:00Z
@dkorpel updated dlang/phobos pull request #8066 "improve documentation of SortedRange.release" mentioning this issue: - Revert "Fix Issue 9489 - writeln of struct with disabled copy ctor" This reverts commit 838da632cbaf4a1888dd7a76754be9fb50520e25. https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8066
Comment #10 by robert.schadek — 2024-12-01T16:16:24Z
THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB https://github.com/dlang/phobos/issues/9950 DO NOT COMMENT HERE ANYMORE, NOBODY WILL SEE IT, THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB