https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14189
Issue ID: 14189
Summary: can't declare two identical function prototypes
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: DMD
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
this code fails to compile:
=== test.d ===
void foo ();
void foo ();
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but why? there is nothing wrong with declaring two identical *prototypes*.
compiler must forbid declaring two identical function *implementations* (i.e.
two functions with same signature and both with body), but there is no sense in
forbidding identical prototypes.
this also breaks win32 API headers ("oleauto.d", for example). and any other
project which declares prototypes more than once.
this will not help catching any bugs too, so it seems that this is just a
needless restriction.
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