• =?iso-8859-2?B?VG9tZWsgU293afFza2k=?= (17/17) Feb 11 2010 I've been playing with templates recently and there's something I don't ...

=?iso-8859-2?B?VG9tZWsgU293afFza2k=?= <just ask.me> writes:

I've been playing with templates recently and there's something I don't  
quite get.

template Outer() {
     template Inner(alias param) {
         alias param Inner;
     }
}

void main() {
     long d;
     Outer!().Inner!(d) = 4; // fails
}

Error: template instance cannot use local 'd' as parameter to non-global  
template Inner(alias param)

Why is it OK to pass aliases to local variables to a normal (global)  
template, and not OK to a nested one? I'd appreciate a counter-example of  
sth bad happening in the forbidden case.


Tomek