for example, i want to write a function with this signature: int foo(char[])
and to call it using char[5] x; foo(x)
.
At the moment i get a compile error stating that char[] isn't the same as char[5].
I thought of writing: int foo(uint SIZE)(char[SIZE])
but then I have to explicitly set the length when calling foo: foo!5(x)
for the example before.
EDIT: you guys are correct, my function actually looks like foo(ref char[])
and I have declared it @nogc
. What I want to do is to fill a given static array with data.
In a broader sense, I'm trying to implement a degenerate format
function because the standard library one is definitely using the GC and I can't call it from my other non GC code. Any ideas about that as well?