Hi,

this is what happens:

while deducing a template match,
- a template instance of binaryFunImpl!false is created to evaluate is(binaryFunImpl!(false).ReturnType)
- the template instance is added as a member to the module
- semantic analysis fails, so the respective startsWith alternative is rejected
- compiler attempts to compile added binaryFunImpl!false and fails

so it helps to write

template binaryFunImpl(bool b)
if(b)
{
...

avoiding creation of the template instance, but I was not able to add a similar test to startsWith in std.algorithm. Maybe someone else has an idea how to do it?

Though this is kind of a blocker for me, should I add just add it as a regression to bugzilla?

Rainer


Rainer Schuetze wrote:
Hi,

I've tried to untangle the startsWith code, and here's the minimal test case I could come up with so far:

///////////////////////
template binaryFunImpl(bool b)
{
       template Body()
       {
           static assert(b);
           alias bool BodyType;
       }
       alias Body!().BodyType  ReturnType;  // line 9
}

uint startsWith(A)(A a) if (is(binaryFunImpl!(true ).ReturnType)) { return 1; } uint startsWith(A)(A a) if (is(binaryFunImpl!(false).ReturnType)) { return 0; } // line 13

const uint var = startsWith(1);
///////////////////////
dmd produces:

test.d(6): Error: static assert  (b) is false
test.d(9):        instantiated from here: Body!()
test.d(13):        instantiated from here: binaryFunImpl!(false)

The error does not show up if var is not const. Also, dmd 2.032 to 2.045 do not produce this error (2.046 fails), so it must be some compiler regression.

As it seems, the compile time evaluation of startsWith uses the wrong specialization. Maybe, it is just not gagging error output?

Any other ideas? I have not yet dived too deep into the template code of the compiler, but if nobody has a better clue (and time), I can give it a try.

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