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reply Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> writes:
Is it defined somewhere that auto functions are not authorized inside main?

void main()
{
    auto fun(string s) { return s;} // this does not compile
}

error:

main.d|6|found 's' when expecting ')'|
main.d|6|semicolon expected, not ')'|
main.d|6|found ')' instead of statement|
main.d|7|unrecognized declaration|
||=== Build finished: 4 errors, 0 warnings ===|


So it's not even parsed?

I couldn't find a bugzilla entry for this and I cannot believe no one ever
tried to put an auto fun inside main!

Is that part of the spec?

Philippe
Jun 27 2010
next sibling parent bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Philippe Sigaud:
 I couldn't find a bugzilla entry for this and I cannot believe no one ever
 tried to put an auto fun inside main!
Maybe auto funcs are seen as instantiated templates, and templates can't be defined inside functions. Anyway, I think you can file this as enhancement request. Bye, bearophile
Jun 27 2010
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Rory McGuire" <rmcguire neonova.co.za> writes:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:17:25 +0200, Philippe Sigaud  
<philippe.sigaud gmail.com> wrote:

 Is it defined somewhere that auto functions are not authorized inside  
 main?

 void main()
 {
     auto fun(string s) { return s;} // this does not compile
 }

 error:

 main.d|6|found 's' when expecting ')'|
 main.d|6|semicolon expected, not ')'|
 main.d|6|found ')' instead of statement|
 main.d|7|unrecognized declaration|
 ||=== Build finished: 4 errors, 0 warnings ===|


 So it's not even parsed?

 I couldn't find a bugzilla entry for this and I cannot believe no one  
 ever
 tried to put an auto fun inside main!

 Is that part of the spec?

 Philippe
Hope this isn't a stupid question, but how would you access this function if it did work? Would it be fun("asdf")? Is this just shorthand for: auto fun = function(string s) {return s;}; -Rory
Jun 28 2010
parent reply BCS <none anon.com> writes:
Hello Rory,

 On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:17:25 +0200, Philippe Sigaud
 <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> wrote:
 
 void main()
 {
 auto fun(string s) { return s;} // this does not compile
 }
Hope this isn't a stupid question, but how would you access this function if it did work? Would it be fun("asdf")? Is this just shorthand for: auto fun = function(string s) {return s;};
I would look almost the same to the user but should in fact be a normal local function. -- ... <IXOYE><
Jun 28 2010
parent "Rory McGuire" <rmcguire neonova.co.za> writes:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:01:46 +0200, BCS <none anon.com> wrote:

 Hello Rory,

 On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:17:25 +0200, Philippe Sigaud
 <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> wrote:

 void main()
 {
 auto fun(string s) { return s;} // this does not compile
 }
Hope this isn't a stupid question, but how would you access this function if it did work? Would it be fun("asdf")? Is this just shorthand for: auto fun = function(string s) {return s;};
I would look almost the same to the user but should in fact be a normal local function.
Ye I got it now. My brain was interpreting it as a delegate that wasn't being assigned to anything for some reason. Now I get that it is just return type inferance doesn't work for inner functions. -Rory
Jun 28 2010
prev sibling parent "Rory McGuire" <rmcguire neonova.co.za> writes:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:07:43 +0200, Philippe Sigaud  
<philippe.sigaud gmail.com> wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 15:40, Rory McGuire <rmcguire neonova.co.za>  
 wrote:
 void main()
 {
    auto fun(string s) { return s;} // this does not compile
 }
 Hope this isn't a stupid question, but how would you access this  
 function if it did work?
 Would it be fun("asdf")?
 Yes, that's what I had in mind. Basically, just using it as any other  
 auto inner function.
 void main()
 {
 auto fun(string s) { return s;}
 auto s = fun("abc");
 auto t = fun("def");
 }

 Is this just shorthand for:
 auto fun = function(string s) {return s;};
 That'd be about the same, yes. Fact is, I don't really _need_ this, I  
 was just astonished to be bitten by this.
 Why can I do
 void main()
 {
    string foo(string s) { return s;}
 }
 and not
 void main()
 {
    auto foo(string s) { return s;}
 }
 ?
 ***
 OK, I tested it some more, and it seems you cannot define auto function  
 inside any other function. So auto function cannot be inner functions.  
 I'm quite astonished I never did that when using D, but OK.

 Philippe
Right! I get what you're saying, didn't realise because it was formatted more how I would format a anon delegate. You're saying "surely the compiler can infer the return type for a inner function just as much as it can infer the return type of a normal function. Must be a compiler bug. -Rory
Jun 28 2010