• d-bugmail puremagic.com (25/26) Apr 14 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579

          Issue ID: 12579
           Summary: DMD rejects valid function literal
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: DMD
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: brian-schott cox.net

From the grammar documentation:

Decl:
    StorageClasses(opt) BasicType Declarator FunctionBody

DMD rejects the following code:

void function() foo {};

and accepts the following:

void function() foo = {};

According to the grammar spec, the latter should be parsed as a variable
declaration whose type is "void function()", with a name of "foo" and an empty
struct initializer. (By the way, the grammar does not allow empty struct
initializers). This should not pass semantic analysis because a struct literal
is not of type void function().

--