• d coder (21/21) Jun 02 2012 Greetings All
• Jacob Carlborg (9/30) Jun 02 2012 I'm guessing that the problem is that you can call a function without

d coder <dlang.coder gmail.com> writes:

Greetings All

Using DMD 2.059, the following code does not compile. DMD does not allow me
to apply stringof on a function alias of a function that takes one or more
arguments. It compiles and runs fine for functions that do not take any
arguments.

Is it a bug, or am I doing something wrong here?

Regards
- Puneet

class Foo {
  void foo() { }
  void frop(int n) { }
}

void callfoo(alias F, T) (T t) {
  import std.stdio;
  writeln(F.stringof);
}

void main() {
  Foo f = new Foo();
  callfoo!(Foo.foo)(f); // This works
  callfoo!(Foo.frop)(f); // This does not work
}

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-06-02 13:40, d coder wrote:
 Greetings All

 Using DMD 2.059, the following code does not compile. DMD does not allow
 me to apply stringof on a function alias of a function that takes one or
 more arguments. It compiles and runs fine for functions that do not take
 any arguments.

 Is it a bug, or am I doing something wrong here?

 Regards
 - Puneet

 class Foo {
    void foo() { }
    void frop(int n) { }
 }

 void callfoo(alias F, T) (T t) {
    import std.stdio;
    writeln(F.stringof);
 }

 void main() {
    Foo f = new Foo();
    callfoo!(Foo.foo)(f); // This works
    callfoo!(Foo.frop)(f); // This does not work
 }

I'm guessing that the problem is that you can call a function without 
parentheses in D (this is how properties are implemented). So the 
problem is that it will actually try and call the function with no 
arguments, which will fail since it expects, in this case, an int. Try 
taking the address of the function first:

writeln(&F.stringof);

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg