• JRM (6/6) Jun 23 2010 On page 231, TDPL states that a class can introduce any number of alias
• Steven Schveighoffer (6/12) Jun 24 2010 The book is right. It has to be, you can't change the book, but you can...
• JRM (3/10) Jun 24 2010 Thanks, I guess I'll just have to add that to the list of features I'm

JRM <a b.com> writes:

On page 231, TDPL states that a class can introduce any number of alias 
this declarations.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html#AliasThis states that there 
is only one allowed per class.

A quick test shows that dmd agrees with the latter.

Which one is right?

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:20:00 -0400, JRM <a b.com> wrote:

 On page 231, TDPL states that a class can introduce any number of alias
 this declarations.

 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html#AliasThis states that there
 is only one allowed per class.

 A quick test shows that dmd agrees with the latter.

 Which one is right?

The book is right.  It has to be, you can't change the book, but you can  
change dmd ;)

But seriously, there are a number of features that are mentioned in TDPL  
that are not properly implemented in dmd.  inout comes to mind...

-Steve

JRM <a b.com> writes:

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:09:23 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 The book is right.  It has to be, you can't change the book, but you can
 change dmd ;)
 
 But seriously, there are a number of features that are mentioned in TDPL
 that are not properly implemented in dmd.  inout comes to mind...
 
 -Steve

Thanks, I guess I'll just have to add that to the list of features I'm 
waiting for.