https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15083
--- Comment #2 from John Colvin <john.loughran.col...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Marc Schütz from comment #1)
> (In reply to John Colvin from comment #0)
> > This uses phobos, but I'm pretty sure typeof should work here so it's a dmd
> > bug.
>
> typeof itself _does_ work, this compiles fine:
>
> pragma(msg, typeof(dirEntries(path, filetype, SpanMode.depth)));
> // prints: FilterResult!(f, DirIterator)
good point
> But FilteResult is evidently a Voldemort type, and you can't declare a
> variable of this type. So I believe this is not a bug.
You can definitely declare variables with Voldemort types.
e.g.
auto foo(){ struct S{} return S(); }
void bar(){ typeof(foo()) a; }
is fine.
The problem here is to do with the initialiser.
typeof(dirEntries(path, filetype, SpanMode.depth)) files = void;
doesn't cause any problems.
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