digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 12802] New: Allow optional 'StorageClasses' for new alias
- via Digitalmars-d-bugs (26/26) May 25 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12802
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12802 Issue ID: 12802 Summary: Allow optional 'StorageClasses' for new alias syntax Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: DMD Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: k.hara.pg gmail.com Old style alias declaration can have optional 'StorageClasses'. alias extern(C) ref pure nothrow int function() FP; pragma(msg, FP); // prints: extern (C) int function() pure nothrow ref But new alias syntax (introduced in enhancement issue 3011) does not support it. alias FP = extern(C) ref pure nothrow int function(); --- test.d(1): Error: basic type expected, not extern test.d(1): Error: semicolon expected to close alias declaration test.d(1): Error: no identifier for declarator extern (C) int function() The latter syntax should also be accepted and have same semantics with the former. --
May 25 2014