digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 16175] New: allow statements and declaration in a compiles
- via Digitalmars-d-bugs (24/24) Jun 15 2016 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16175
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16175 Issue ID: 16175 Summary: allow statements and declaration in a compiles block Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: greensunny12 gmail.com it would be sometimes nice to be able to use expressions and statements inside the compiles block: ``` int c = 5; static assert(!__traits(compiles,int* cMutable = &c)); ``` I understand if the rationale was to keep `compiles` simple, because most things can be done with expressions. Anyway, e.g. for teaching this is quite nice: https://github.com/stonemaster/dlang-tour/pull/144 --
Jun 15 2016