• Ary Manzana (14/14) Sep 20 2007 Compiling:
• BCS (3/20) Sep 20 2007 I think it's not parsing how you want it, try this:
• Ary Manzana (3/26) Sep 20 2007 But I can do it without parenthesis in other languages... I'll try to
• Robert Fraser (2/29) Sep 20 2007

Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

Compiling:

---
class X {
	void bar() {
	}
}

void foo() {
	new X().bar();
}
---

gives me:
main.d(7): found '.' when expecting ';' following 'statement'

Is this a bug or is it the intended behaviour? I can do this in Java, 

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to Ary,

 Compiling:
 
 ---
 class X {
 void bar() {
 }
 }
 void foo() {
 new X().bar();
 }
 ---
 
 gives me:
 main.d(7): found '.' when expecting ';' following 'statement'
 Is this a bug or is it the intended behaviour? I can do this in Java,

 

I think it's not parsing how you want it, try this:

 (new X()).bar();

Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

BCS escribió:
 Reply to Ary,
 
 Compiling:

 ---
 class X {
 void bar() {
 }
 }
 void foo() {
 new X().bar();
 }
 ---

 gives me:
 main.d(7): found '.' when expecting ';' following 'statement'
 Is this a bug or is it the intended behaviour? I can do this in Java,


 
 I think it's not parsing how you want it, try this:
 
 (new X()).bar();

But I can do it without parenthesis in other languages... I'll try to 
fix this in Descent's parser and submit a bug report.

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

I think it might create a parsing ambiguity. Since you can refer to inner
clases by prefixing them with the name of the object or type, there's no way to
tell during the syntactic pass whether it's a qualified type name or a call

parentheses at the end of the new expression, so once it hits a closing
parenthesis, the parser knows that's the end of the new expression.

Ary Manzana Wrote:

 BCS escribió:
 Reply to Ary,
 
 Compiling:

 ---
 class X {
 void bar() {
 }
 }
 void foo() {
 new X().bar();
 }
 ---

 gives me:
 main.d(7): found '.' when expecting ';' following 'statement'
 Is this a bug or is it the intended behaviour? I can do this in Java,


 
 I think it's not parsing how you want it, try this:
 
 (new X()).bar();

 
 But I can do it without parenthesis in other languages... I'll try to 
 fix this in Descent's parser and submit a bug report.