On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 10:11:49 UTC, Ethan wrote:
Exhibit A: https://run.dlang.io/is/a85Lbq
[..snip..]
I submitted a bug with the above code, and it was "helpfully" shut down with a link to the documentation and workaround.
This looks like the bug report you are referring to: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18944
I understand that the specification defines the current behavior and provides a workaround, but what's the justification for that behavior? Is it hygiene?
I've been interested in improving mixins for reasons discussed in the interpolated strings PR (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7988) and this discussion about library-implemented properties (https://forum.dlang.org/post/mqveusvzkmkshrzws...@forum.dlang.org).
Perhaps there's an opportunity here for a language improvement that would help all of these use cases.
Mike
