On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 16:15:50 UTC, captaindet wrote:
however, i don't see the issue fully resolved. in
enum IDENTIFIER;
IDENTIFIER is an identifier, there is no way around it. the
enum declaration makes it a type too, but it continues to be an
identifier. an identifier is a "PrimaryExpression". a
"PrimaryExpression" is an "Expression", any expression is
officially allowed in typeof. but it throws an error because
this expression is a type too.
same goes with
alias IDENTIFIER2 = int;
Grammar rule "expression" is not necessarily an expression in a
general sense of computing values, designating objects or
producing side effects.
i don't think it can/should be fixed for identifiers only but
instead typeof() should cover types in general:
typeof(IDENTIFIER) = IDENTIFIER
typeof(IDENTIFIER2 ) = int
typeof(int) = int
i see only advantages in this and it would clean up meta code
from handling corner cases. (at least in my case, but being
still on the newbie side of D programming i might not do it
right.)
/det
Yes.
