• d-bugmail puremagic.com (29/29) Apr 02 2022 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22969

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22969

          Issue ID: 22969
           Summary: Can't mixin name of manifest constant on right-hand
                    side of alias declaration
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: snarwin+bugzilla gmail.com

As of DMD 2.099.0, the following program fails to compile:

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enum e = 0;
alias a = mixin("e");
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The error message is:

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onlineapp.d(2): Error: alias `onlineapp.a` cannot alias an expression `0`
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If the manifest constant is changed to a variable, compilation succeeds:

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auto v = 0;
alias a = mixin("v"); // ok
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