On 05/22/2017 11:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 05/22/2017 11:23 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 15:05:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
mixin is a statement so it needs a terminator, hence
the semicolon at the very end. In turn, mixin takes
a string (the concatenation of variable op
That actually depends on context! The mixin statement needs
statements, but the mixin expression takes expressions. Same mixin
keyword, but if it is in the context of a statement it is a statement
and in the context of an expression, it is an expression.
---
void main() {
int payload;
mixin("++payload;"); // statement, ; required
int b = mixin("++payload"); // expression, ; would be wrong there
and cause an error!
}
---
http://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#MixinExpression
http://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#MixinStatement
Yah, didn't want to overload the article (or the discussion) with the
expression/statement distinction. -- Andrei
Updated the post, it's an interesting point after all. Thanks! -- Andrei
