• bearophile (6/6) Jan 17 2012 Is code vaguely like this meaningful and useful?
• Timon Gehr (8/14) Jan 17 2012 Yes. The fact that your particular example does not work is a mere
• bearophile (5/13) Jan 17 2012 Thank you Timon, you are often good :-)
• Philippe Sigaud (6/12) Jan 18 2012 This limitation (not being able to alias a lambda) is quite irksome.
• bearophile (5/12) Jan 18 2012 It's better to add it yourself:

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Is code vaguely like this meaningful and useful?


void main() {
    alias (x => x ^^ 2) sqrTemplate;
}


Bye,
bearophile

Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:

On 01/18/2012 01:35 AM, bearophile wrote:
 Is code vaguely like this meaningful and useful?


 void main() {
      alias (x =>  x ^^ 2) sqrTemplate;
 }


 Bye,
 bearophile

Yes. The fact that your particular example does not work is a mere 
syntactic issue.
This works:

template ID(alias a){alias a ID;}
void main(){
     alias ID!(x => x ^^ 2) sqrTemplate;
}

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Timon Gehr:

 Yes. The fact that your particular example does not work is a mere 
 syntactic issue.
 This works:
 
 template ID(alias a){alias a ID;}
 void main(){
      alias ID!(x => x ^^ 2) sqrTemplate;
 }

Thank you Timon, you are often good :-)
I'll add it as enhancement request.

Bye,
bearophile

Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:06, bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote:

 template ID(alias a){alias a ID;}
 void main(){
 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0alias ID!(x =3D> x ^^ 2) sqrTemplate;
 }

 Thank you Timon, you are often good :-)
 I'll add it as enhancement request.

This limitation (not being able to alias a lambda) is quite irksome.
If you do an enhancement request, could you also add one for:

alias __traits(whatever, whatever) some Result;

Right now, the alias grammar doesn't allow this and I find this
limitation jarring.

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Philippe Sigaud:

 This limitation (not being able to alias a lambda) is quite irksome.
 If you do an enhancement request, could you also add one for:
 
 alias __traits(whatever, whatever) some Result;
 
 Right now, the alias grammar doesn't allow this and I find this
 limitation jarring.

It's better to add it yourself:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7308

Bye,
bearophile