On Thursday, 6 June 2019 at 21:02:37 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 6/6/19 1:49 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 6 June 2019 at 17:40:17 UTC, Machine Code wrote:
outside an unittest, this compiles fine:
struct A
try making it `static struct` instead
cannot implicitly convert expression "hehe" of type string
to A
Why does inside a unittest it doesn't work? the constructor
this(string) {} seems to get disabled.
My suspicion is it is trying to access the context of the
unittest as a hidden paramater to that constructor there...
and in an enum, it can't, just stupid compiler didn't think to
mention the hidden arg here.
my guess.
Yes, correct guess. A unittest block is actually a function, so
it's considered an inner struct with a hidden context pointer.
-Steve
Intesting, I also tried to declare it inside a function, that did
not work either. Is this hidden context pointer a current
limitation in CTFE? I've tried to declare the struct at module
level and run the functions on static this() to workaround that
but to finish, I'd like to eble to run the code in static main()
only when unnitest is enabled but so I haven't manged to do that.
*Imaginary code* would be:
unittest
{
enum enabled = true;
}
else
{
enum enabled = true;
}
but I was on my mind unittest was similar to static if() but as
it's like a function, there are no else let alone acess to enum
enabled as true, outside the block but the idea is run (or even
only declare) a piece of code (which includes that struct) only
if we are an unittest.
