• Yossarian <phoenix flareware.cz> Jul 02 2006
• Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeirosATgmail SPAM.com> Jul 02 2006
• Deewiant <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam gmail.com> Jul 02 2006

Yossarian <phoenix flareware.cz> writes:

consider following code:

import std.stdio;
const int t = 0;
void main()
{
	writefln("%d", (t) - 1);
}

(i think it's completelly legal, but compiler explains:
C style cast illegal, use cast(t)-1

is it a bug, or a feature?

Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeirosATgmail SPAM.com> writes:

Yossarian wrote:
 consider following code:
 
 import std.stdio;
 const int t = 0;
 void main()
 {
     writefln("%d", (t) - 1);
 }
 
 (i think it's completelly legal, but compiler explains:
 C style cast illegal, use cast(t)-1
 
 is it a bug, or a feature?


That compiles fine here, with DMD .162 .

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D

Deewiant <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam gmail.com> writes:

Yossarian wrote:
 consider following code:
 
 import std.stdio;
 const int t = 0;
 void main()
 {
     writefln("%d", (t) - 1);
 }
 
 (i think it's completelly legal, but compiler explains:
 C style cast illegal, use cast(t)-1
 
 is it a bug, or a feature?


It is Bug 34, which was fixed in DMD 0.161:
http://d.puremagic.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34