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reply Bruno Medeiros <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> writes:
I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of 
code wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after 
reducing it to the simplest form of code:

   class Bar(TYPE)
   {
	Bar!(TYPE) instance;
   }

and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing 
the field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold, 
"instance" is a deprecated keyword: 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html
( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' )
Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
"Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to 
be... unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
next sibling parent "John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message 
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I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of code 
wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after reducing it 
to the simplest form of code:

   class Bar(TYPE)
   {
 Bar!(TYPE) instance;
   }

 and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing the 
 field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold, "instance" 
 is a deprecated keyword: 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html
 ( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' )
 Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?


Can we have a show of hands for how many still use "instance" to instantiate 
a template? It's my guess that only ancient legacy code will use it. And 
it's good, honest variable name that should probably be free'd up.


 -- 
 Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
 "Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to 
 be... unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Garett Bass" <garettbass studiotekne.com> writes:
I would also like to see this identifier freed up since it is my favorite name
for a singleton instance.

;)
Garett

"Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message
news:dkt3g1$15jp$1 digitaldaemon.com...

I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of code
wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, 
and after reducing it to the simplest form of code:

   class Bar(TYPE)
   {
 Bar!(TYPE) instance;
   }

 and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing the
field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and 
 behold, "instance" is a deprecated keyword:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html
 ( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' )
 Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?

 -- 
 Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
 "Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be...
unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
parent Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:
Amen!
It's my favourite name for singleton instance too!

Garett Bass wrote:

 I would also like to see this identifier freed up since it is my favorite name
for a singleton instance.
 
 ;)
 Garett
 
 "Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message
news:dkt3g1$15jp$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 

I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of code
wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, 
and after reducing it to the simplest form of code:

  class Bar(TYPE)
  {
Bar!(TYPE) instance;
  }

and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing the field
name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and 
behold, "instance" is a deprecated keyword:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html
( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' )
Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
"Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be...
unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
prev sibling parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alex_R=F8nne_Petersen?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> writes:
On 09-11-2005 16:10, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

 I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of
 code wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after
 reducing it to the simplest form of code:

 class Bar(TYPE)
 {
 Bar!(TYPE) instance;
 }

 and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing
 the field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold,
 "instance" is a deprecated keyword:
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html
 ( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' )
 Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?


Wow, I had no idea. This needs to be freed up.

-- 
- Alex
Feb 06 2012