On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 15:05:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
mixin is a statement so it needs a terminator, hence
the semicolon at the very end. In turn, mixin takes
a string (the concatenation of variable op
That actually depends on context! The mixin statement needs
statements, but the mixin expression takes expressions. Same
mixin keyword, but if it is in the context of a statement it is a
statement and in the context of an expression, it is an
expression.
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void main() {
int payload;
mixin("++payload;"); // statement, ; required
int b = mixin("++payload"); // expression, ; would be wrong
there and cause an error!
}
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http://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#MixinExpression
http://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#MixinStatement
