On 06/22/2013 11:51 PM, Timothee Cour wrote:
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Timon Gehr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 06/22/2013 09:52 PM, Timothee Cour wrote: Is there a reason the language spec disallows this? ---- void main(){ auto a=mixin("1");//OK alias b=a;//OK mixin("alias c=a;");//OK // alias c=mixin("a");//NG : Error: basic type expected, not mixin } ---- No, it is arbitrary. that's what i thought! same with template mixin's being restricated.
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... can we fix it? it makes for cleaner code.
It surely could be fixed if you want to spend the time hacking on DMD. I think the grammar is somewhat poorly designed in general.
