On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:54:01PM +0200, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:57:05 +0000 > WhatMeWorry via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> > wrote: > > > auto bottom = NestedBottom(2, ['d','o','g']); > ah, that good old thingy! there were some debates about locals that > shadows fields and how that can introduce some hard-to-catch bugs. > > you were hit by exactly that: you creating local variable `bottom` > instead of assigning value to member `bottom`. that nasty little > compiler is playing tricks with us all.
Yeah, this bit me before, and it was Not Fun. Generally, it's a very bad idea to name local variables after field members due to shadowing. I'd file a bug for it, but I'm not sure how likely it is to get fixed. But you could try. ;-) (Sometimes it works. :-P) T -- Leather is waterproof. Ever see a cow with an umbrella?
