I'm trying to learn template meta programming in D. To do this, I'm working on a meta state machine like Boost.MSM (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/msm/doc/HTML/index.html).
States are types and can have sub states. If they do, they need to have an attribut 'SubStates', which should be a TypeTuble with the sub states. The task at hand is: Given a State and a list of all States, create a list of all parents of State including State itself. This code (http://paste.pocoo.org/show/506154/) ought to do this and it works sometimes. You can make to interesting observations of this code: In its current form, 'dmd test.d -unittest' will print: " > false But if you uncomment the first pragma() in the unittest block, it will print > () > true If you change the body of ParentsDesc to > alias TypeTuple!() Result; it will also print > true Although the static if in ParentsDesc is never true in this example. What's going on?