Re: Cannot alias null

[Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:42 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:26:13PM -0500, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d-learn 
> wrote:
>> This will not compile:
>>
>>   alias blah = null;
> [...]
>
> 'null' is a value, not a type. Try:
>
>         alias blah = typeof(null);

Great, that works!

What I was really trying to do was D'ify C expressions like this:

  typedef ((struct t*)0) blah;

So, taking your advice, I found this to work (at least it compiles as
a translation:

  alias blah = typeof(null);

Thanks,T and Ali.

Best,

-Tom