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digitalmars.D.bugs - Scalars attributes with similarly named local functions can cause no compile errors.

reply David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:
oops! Sorry about the mix up on the last post :( Anyway, I'm already aware that
I'm a bug on the planet Earth, yet I'm not subject to any fixing here...but I
must say that my wife has been doing a pretty good job on debugging me so far.
(Still, I don't think there's anyway a total fix can be applied to me this far
into the current life cycle.) :)) Don't mind me...life and application software
just seem very similar at this point. 










































Output:
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C:\dmd>dmd minmax.d
minmax.d(32): found '(' when expecting ','
minmax.d(32): found ')' when expecting ';' following 'statement'
minmax.d(33): found '(' when expecting ','
minmax.d(33): found ')' when expecting ';' following 'statement'
minmax.d(34): found '(' when expecting ','
minmax.d(34): found ')' when expecting ';' following 'statement'

C:\dmd>

David L.

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parent reply Chris Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> writes:
David L. Davis wrote:




Why do you even need this?  Or is it just something to show the bug with?  :)





Here's your error right here...  It should be:


Or:


Only thing is, since '.' is supposed to double as the module-scope operator,
the first 
version /should/ work.  But I think its trying to call it as a
property-function (or 
whatever we ended up calling these things) rather than a module-function. 
Oddness.

-- Chris Sauls
Jun 25 2005
parent David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:
In article <d9kcvq$30v8$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Chris Sauls says...

David L. Davis wrote:




Why do you even need this?  Or is it just something to show the bug with?  :)


Only to show that there's a bug...otherwise the code is pretty useless. :)





Here's your error right here...  It should be:


Or:


Only thing is, since '.' is supposed to double as the module-scope 
operator, the first version /should/ work.  But I think its trying 
to call it as a property-function (or whatever we ended up calling 
these things) rather than a module-function.  Oddness.

-- Chris Sauls


Like you pointed out, the module-scope '.' should work even in this code, and
this is exactly the error I wanted to point out. 

I found this error while writing some code where a wrote my own min() function
and added a '.' because I had imported std.math, thinking std.math would have it
defined as well. But to my surprise std.math doesn't, and the error occured when
I tried to compile the code...so I decided that I should take the time to post a
simple clear example of the problem. Overwise it may not be found and fixed
anytime soon. <g>

David L. 

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