• d-bugmail puremagic.com (48/48) Jan 18 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24345

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24345

          Issue ID: 24345
           Summary: Issue with `alias this = xyz` inside structs.
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
               URL: http://dlang.org/
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P3
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: codedan hotmail.com

Example code:

```d
module app;
import std;

void main() {
    auto x = new Derived(10, 20);
}

struct Base {
    int a;
}

struct Derived
{
    Base base;
    int b;
    alias this = base;

     disable this();

    // `a` is not available for use with constructor parameters.
    //
    this( typeof(a) _a, typeof(b) _b ) {
        //
        // inside the body of the constructor, `a` is available!
        //
        a = _a;
        b = _b;

        writeln( a, ", ", b );
    }
}
```

Error:
`Error: undefined identifier a`

Problem:
The compiler can't find the symbol `a` in the constructor parameters, although
the symbol was "imported" into the struct scope by using `alias this = base;`.

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