On 06/12/2014 03:38 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> Yet you can alias variables...
>
> int i;
> alias j = i;
Initially I forgot about the fact that symbols can be alias'ed as well.
So that's fine.
> So there's something special about "null".
The difference is that null is an expression. It is the same limitation
as not being able to alias a literal.
alias zero = 0;
alias blah = null;
Those two declarations fail for the same reason:
Error: basic type expected, not 0
Error: semicolon expected to close alias declaration
Error: basic type expected, not null
Error: semicolon expected to close alias declaration
The pair of error messages are somewhat silly: The first one is
misleading because as we know, it should say "basic type *or symbol*
expected"; and the second one is bogus because there actually is a
semicolon there: :p
Ali
