• Yuxuan Shui (11/11) Aug 04 2018 This doesn't work:
• Steven Schveighoffer (4/17) Aug 04 2018 I believe mixin templates introduce a new symbol namespace to a degree.
• Jonathan M Davis (5/27) Aug 04 2018 A prime example of this is how you can't introduce function overloads wi...
• Yuxuan Shui (3/20) Aug 04 2018 What is the rational behind this?

Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7 gmail.com> writes:

This doesn't work:

template A() {
	void B() {};
}
template B() {
	mixin A!();
}
void main() {
	B!()();
}

Is this intentional?

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On 8/4/18 4:10 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
 This doesn't work:
 
 template A() {
      void B() {};
 }
 template B() {
      mixin A!();
 }
 void main() {
      B!()();
 }
 
 Is this intentional?

I believe mixin templates introduce a new symbol namespace to a degree. 
I doubt you would be able to do something like this.

-Steve

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Saturday, August 04, 2018 17:10:32 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-
d-learn wrote:
 On 8/4/18 4:10 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
 This doesn't work:

 template A() {

      void B() {};

 }
 template B() {

      mixin A!();

 }
 void main() {

      B!()();

 }

 Is this intentional?

 I believe mixin templates introduce a new symbol namespace to a degree.
 I doubt you would be able to do something like this.

A prime example of this is how you can't introduce function overloads with a
template mixin.

- Jonathan M Davis

Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7 gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 4 August 2018 at 21:10:32 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
 On 8/4/18 4:10 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
 This doesn't work:
 
 template A() {
      void B() {};
 }
 template B() {
      mixin A!();
 }
 void main() {
      B!()();
 }
 
 Is this intentional?

 I believe mixin templates introduce a new symbol namespace to a 
 degree. I doubt you would be able to do something like this.

 -Steve

What is the rational behind this?