• vitus (9/9) Jul 31 2015 //Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?
• simendsjo (5/14) Jul 31 2015 foo is a template, while bar is a function. I would have thought
• anonymous (13/22) Jul 31 2015 It works when you switch the aliases around:
• anonymous (2/4) Aug 01 2015 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14858

"vitus" <vitus vitus.vitus> writes:

//Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?


void foo()(){}
void bar(int){}

alias foobar = foo;
alias foobar = bar;

void main(){
	.foobar(1);		//OK
	foobar(1);		//Error: overload alias 'foo' is not a variable

}

"simendsjo" <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 10:56:33 UTC, vitus wrote:
 //Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?


 void foo()(){}
 void bar(int){}

 alias foobar = foo;
 alias foobar = bar;

 void main(){
 	.foobar(1);		//OK
 	foobar(1);		//Error: overload alias 'foo' is not a variable

 }

foo is a template, while bar is a function. I would have thought 
the `.foobar(1)` should have failed too... Must be some strange 
lookup rules I don't know about (or a dmd bug).
`alias foobar = foo!();` should make it work in both cases though.

"anonymous" <anonymous example.com> writes:

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 10:56:33 UTC, vitus wrote:
 //Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?


 void foo()(){}
 void bar(int){}

 alias foobar = foo;
 alias foobar = bar;

 void main(){
 	.foobar(1);		//OK
 	foobar(1);		//Error: overload alias 'foo' is not a variable

 }

It works when you switch the aliases around:
----
void foo()(){}
void bar(int){}

alias foobar = bar;
alias foobar = foo;

void main(){
     foobar(1);
}
----

Definitely a bug. Please file an issue at 
<https://issues.dlang.org/>.

"anonymous" <anonymous example.com> writes:

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 11:09:39 UTC, anonymous wrote:
 Definitely a bug. Please file an issue at 
 <https://issues.dlang.org/>.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14858