On 2012-46-06 08:11, Don Clugston <d...@nospam.com> wrote:
It fails because you're asking for the full function name, before its
type has been determined. (There's no real return type 'auto', 'auto'
just means 'work it out for me').
I don't think this is a bug. Although it might be solvable in this
particular example, in general it's a circular dependency.
eg, if you do:
auto foo()
{
static if (__FUNCTION == "int foo()") { return 'a' }
return 0;
}
if __FUNCTION is "int foo()" then it will return a char, which means its
signature is "char foo()". This is a contradiction.
DMD already does some cycle detection for types, right? I don't remember
the details, but i seem to recall this was made to work a few releases
back:
class Foo {
static if ( is( typeof( Foo.bar ) ) ) {
void baz() {}
}
static if ( true ) {
int bar() {}
}
}
The algorithm would probably have to exclude mixins, but I think it could
be made to work for most cases.
--
Simen
