digitalmars.D - Phobos Help Request: Aliases and CTFE
- monarch_dodra (39/39) Sep 05 2012 This is a help request for a pull I am working on:
This is a help request for a pull I am working on: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/727 It is just a basic templated struct. The issue I'm having comes from this line (1069), where I am trying to define a compile-time string: ---- enum string seedExceptionText = text("LaggedFibonacciEngine.seed: Input range didn't provide" " enough elements: Need ", longLag, " elements."); ---- Note: longLag is a template parameter of type size_t. This line, in and out of itself, works. The problem is that once I declare my "generators with well-chosen parameters" aliases, all hell breaks loose: ---- alias LaggedFibonacciEngine!(double, 48, 607, 273) LaggedFibonacci607; alias LaggedFibonacciEngine!(double, 48, 1279, 418) LaggedFibonacci1279; [...] alias LaggedFibonacci607 LaggedFibonacci; ---- Here is the diff where I *removed* these aliases: https://github.com/monarchdodra/phobos/commit/4f333a22a5bcae50357f305fd0611a31255de101#std/random.d After removing them, these compilation errors seized to exist (different messages on different machines): http://d.puremagic.com/test-results/pull.ghtml?runid=276052 http://d.puremagic.com/test-results/pull.ghtml?runid=276053 http://d.puremagic.com/test-results/pull.ghtml?runid=276054 The error message, in a word, is: std/conv.d(3040): Error: template std.conv.text(T...) forward reference to template text(T...) Which originate from the alias declarations. What does "forward reference" even mean in this context? The (very?) strange parts here I am having trouble wrapping my head around is that std.random compiles and unittests fine. It is actually std.algorithm that is having trouble importing std.random, when trying to instantiate(?) the aliases... I really could use a bit of enlightenment here...
Sep 05 2012