Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-24 Thread Zach the Mystic
On 2/23/12 7:33 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote: import std.stdio; mixin template helpMe() { writeln(Satisfying!); } does it do that if you replace the statement with a declaration? like this: mixin template helpMe() { int durrr = (writeln(Satisfying!), 1); } No, it doesn't. You're right. I

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-24 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:08:18PM -0500, Zach the Mystic wrote: [...] Does any other language come close to D in terms of generics? I don't know, I'm just asking? [...] AFAIK, no. But then I only have C++ to compare with, and if I understand it correctly Java and C#'s generics don't even come

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-24 Thread James Miller
On Feb 25, 2012 9:08 AM, Zach the Mystic reachzachatgooglesmailserv...@dot.com wrote: On 2/23/12 7:33 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote: import std.stdio; mixin template helpMe() { writeln(Satisfying!); } does it do that if you replace the statement with a declaration? like this: mixin

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-23 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 05:27:03PM -0500, Zach the Mystic wrote: On 2/21/12 2:53 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: According to the docs, template mixins can have only declarations but helpMe above has a statement. http://dlang.org/template-mixin.html Ali Thanks for your reply. You're right

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-23 Thread Ellery Newcomer
Thanks for your reply. You're right about the statement. But I still think something's wrong. For example, even this program produces the errors: import std.stdio; mixin template helpMe() { writeln(Satisfying!); } does it do that if you replace the statement with a declaration? like this:

mixin template FAIL

2012-02-21 Thread Zach the Mystic
I decided to try using template mixin, but even the simplest program fails. What's wrong with this code? Error list follows. DMD64 D Compiler v2.057 OSX 10.6 import std.stdio; mixin template helpMe() { writeln(Satisfying!); } void main() { mixin helpMe(); } test.d(5): unexpected ( in

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-21 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 02/21/2012 10:47 AM, Zach the Mystic wrote: I decided to try using template mixin, but even the simplest program fails. What's wrong with this code? Error list follows. DMD64 D Compiler v2.057 OSX 10.6 import std.stdio; mixin template helpMe() { writeln(Satisfying!); } void main()

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-02-21 20:53, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 02/21/2012 10:47 AM, Zach the Mystic wrote: I decided to try using template mixin, but even the simplest program fails. What's wrong with this code? Error list follows. DMD64 D Compiler v2.057 OSX 10.6 import std.stdio; mixin template

Re: mixin template FAIL

2012-02-21 Thread Ellery Newcomer
On 02/21/2012 01:53 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: According to the docs, template mixins can have only declarations but helpMe above has a statement. http://dlang.org/template-mixin.html Ali come to think of it, I've occasionally wished for statement mixins. This would make a good enhancement