• Janice Caron (22/22) Nov 28 2007 The following program gives unexptected results.

"Janice Caron" <caron800 googlemail.com> writes:

The following program gives unexptected results.

    template MakeConst(T)
    {
        alias const(T) MakeConst;
    }

    void main()
    {
        alias float MF;
        alias const(float) CF;
        alias MakeConst!(MF) TF;

        writefln(MF.stringof, ", ", typeid(MF));
        writefln(CF.stringof, ", ", typeid(CF));
        writefln(TF.stringof, ", ", typeid(TF));
    }


It prints...

    float, float
    const float, const float
    float, float

I would have expected the second and third lines to be identical. Why
aren't they?

More to the point, how can I create a template which turns a primitive
type T into a const(T)?