http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3231
--- Comment #12 from Tim M <tim.matthe...@gmail.com> 2009-08-08 16:42:01 PDT
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Adding the dot is so trivial and takes no time at all. I do believe that this
is indeed a bug anyway explanation of such:
This code will not compile:
class A
{
void func();
func getFunc()
{
return null;
}
}
void main()
{
}
You cannot return a 'func' as it is not a type. 'func' is actually an instance
of 'delegate' so it should have been declared as that.
class A
{
void func();
void getFunc()
{
new func();
}
}
void main()
{
}
Here 'getFunc' is declared as void but it doesn't compile either because this
time I am trying to new a 'func' which causes a compile error again because
'func' is not a type but an instance of delegate.
Whenever a peice of D code contains 2 identifiers next to each other like so:
AB XY
It can only mean either XY is an instance (whether that be value, ref, of
function returning) and AB is a type. Likewise I can't 'new' everything either.
The bug is simply that dmdfe wasn't attempting to find a type or instance with
the particular name but it was satisfied with the first symbol it found.
If this indeed hard to fixup now (and I would rather Walter focus on more
important issues) then adding a couple of dots is something I wouldn't mind to
do either (it would require a few bytes of code)
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