On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 11:45:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 23:14:08 cal wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 23:09:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 22:32:44 cal wrote:
>> Grammar spec
>> (http://dlang.org/grammar.html#AliasDeclaration)
>> allows:
>>
>> AliasDeclaration:
>> alias BasicType Declarator
>>
>> DMD allows:
>>
>> alias ref int MyRefInt;
>>
>> Is the ref storage class allowed by the current grammar
>> spec?
>
> No. ref is not part of the BasicType grammar rule. ref is
> only
> legal on
> function parameters, return types, and the variable in a
> foreach loop and is
> not part of the type.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
Thanks, I'll file this a grammar bug.
If anything, it's a bug that ref is allowed in an alias given
that it can't be
part of a type, and alias is used to either alias a type or a
symbol.
- Jonathan M Davis
You can also get ref in a type using is(foo Types == function)
