• Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn (13/13) Apr 17 2017 I find myself in need of constructing an empty Result object. I tried
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (17/20) Apr 17 2017 (Not a complete solution; just sharing your pain.)
• H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn (11/17) Apr 17 2017 Could this possibly be simplified to:
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (15/22) Apr 17 2017 Thank you. That's much better but only if I restructure the code to use
• Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn (16/18) Apr 18 2017 {});

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> writes:

I find myself in need of constructing an empty Result object. I tried
takeNone!Result, but obviously the type Result doesn't appear to exist.
Anyone any ideas?

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=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 04/17/2017 11:30 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
 I find myself in need of constructing an empty Result object. I tried
 takeNone!Result, but obviously the type Result doesn't appear to exist.
 Anyone any ideas?

(Not a complete solution; just sharing your pain.)

I had the same problem here:

 
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/fibers.html#ix_fibers.Generator,%20std.concurrency

The solution I could use there is less than ideal and may not apply in 
all cases. I used typeof and was able to satisfy it with an empty delegate:

/* Returns an InputRange to the nodes of the tree. The
  * returned range is empty if the tree has no elements (i.e.
  * if 'root' is 'null'). */
auto byNode(const(Tree) tree) {
     alias RangeType = typeof(byNode(tree.root));

     return (tree.root
             ? byNode(tree.root)
             : new RangeType(() {}));    // ← Empty range
}

Ali

"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn" <digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> writes:

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 12:05:19PM -0700, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[...]
 auto byNode(const(Tree) tree) {
     alias RangeType = typeof(byNode(tree.root));

Could this possibly be simplified to:

	alias RangeType = typeof(return);

?

Or does that cause a circular dependency that makes the compilation
fail?


     return (tree.root
             ? byNode(tree.root)
             : new RangeType(() {}));    // ← Empty range
 }

[...]


T

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=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 04/17/2017 12:33 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 12:05:19PM -0700, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
 [...]
 auto byNode(const(Tree) tree) {
     alias RangeType = typeof(byNode(tree.root));

 Could this possibly be simplified to:

 	alias RangeType = typeof(return);

 ?

Thank you. That's much better but only if I restructure the code to use 
an if statement:

auto byNode(const(Tree) tree) {
     if (tree.root) {
         return byNode(tree.root);
     }
     else {
         alias RangeType = typeof(return);
         return new RangeType(() {});
     }
}

That works because the return type of the function is the first return 
statement. (My original code had only one return and that was the problem.)

Ali

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> writes:

On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 15:10 -0700, Ali =C3=87ehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
 alias RangeType =3D typeof(return);
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{});


It appears the answer to my question is:

	return typeof(return)();

Thanks to Ali and T for setting on the right path.

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