• Geordi (11/11) Jan 12 2005 Apologies if this has already been asked,
• Stewart Gordon (8/15) Jan 12 2005 See my post today on digitalmars.D.bugs.
• Walter (8/19) Jan 12 2005 Am I

Geordi <Geordi_member pathlink.com> writes:

Apologies if this has already been asked,

code:

class A{
B b;
enum B { x,y,z }
}

Produces this error:
enum B is forward referenced

It was my understanding that D did not require forward declarations, the
existance of this error message implies that this is an error by design. Am I
missing something?

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

Geordi wrote:
 Apologies if this has already been asked,

See my post today on digitalmars.D.bugs.

<snip>
 Produces this error:
 enum B is forward referenced
 
 It was my understanding that D did not require forward declarations, the
 existance of this error message implies that this is an error by design. Am I
 missing something?

This aspect of the language is slowly working its way in.

Stewart.

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"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Geordi" <Geordi_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:cs37sk$1lll$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Apologies if this has already been asked,

 code:

 class A{
 B b;
 enum B { x,y,z }
 }

 Produces this error:
 enum B is forward referenced

 It was my understanding that D did not require forward declarations, the
 existance of this error message implies that this is an error by design.

Am I
 missing something?

No, you're not missing anything. Enums just haven't gotten the attention
they need in the internal compiler workings to support forward referencing
yet. The last compiler update went through some significant internal work to
get structs to forward reference right. It'll happen for enums, too, it's
just a lower priority.