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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 632] New: Typedef promotions spec ambiguous - ultimate base type or lowest common denominator?

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           Summary: Typedef promotions spec ambiguous - ultimate base type
                    or lowest common denominator?
           Product: D
           Version: 0.175
          Platform: All
               URL: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/type.html
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: spec
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: www.digitalmars.com
        AssignedTo: bugzilla digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: smjg iname.com
OtherBugsDependingO 511
             nThis:



the result is the base type.

the result is that base type."

By "base type", does it mean the built-in type from which the typedef is
ultimately derived, or the most-derived type that is a common base to both (the
lowest common denominator)?  In particular, it's tempting to think that, given

    typedef int qwert;
    typedef qwert yuiop;
    typedef qwert asdfg;

that the "base type" in question is qwert, which is the immediate parent type
of yuiop and adsfg, and hence that an expression involving any two of these
typedefs will promote to qwert.  This is similar to the common use of "base
class" in OOP lingo.

The better way, IMO, is to define such promotions to be to the lowest common
denominator type.  Consequently, any typedef (other than one of a type that's
always subject to integer promotions, but that's another matter) would be
closed under arithmetic operations.  I imagine that implementing this principle
in the compiler wouldn't be difficult.

Please see
http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=44821
for further commentary.

But whichever method is chosen, the spec needs to be made clearer.


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smjg iname.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Typedef promotions spec     |Typedef/enum promotions spec
                   |ambiguous - ultimate base   |ambiguous - ultimate base
                   |type or lowest common       |type or lowest common
                   |denominator?                |denominator?





Issue 633 has been reduced to this one.  Whatever the spec is fixed to say, it
must also avoid any ambiguity in what happens when mixed enum/typedef chains
are involved.  This will only be an issue if the ultimate base type route is
chosen - going by lowest common denominator naturally addresses this.


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*** Bug 633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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Walter Bright <bugzilla digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED



14:33:58 PST ---
http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/2137

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