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--- Comment #1 from Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> ---
I might add that "init" is declared as "abstract" so there's no compiler bug here.

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--- Comment #2 from Kenji Hara <k.hara.pg@gmail.com> ---
Introduced in: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1307

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Martin Nowak <code@dawg.eu> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Martin Nowak <code@dawg.eu> ---
Why do you need to instantiate TypeInfo?

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--- Comment #4 from Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> ---
(In reply to Martin Nowak from comment #3)
> Why do you need to instantiate TypeInfo?

https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/base/blob/master/src/java/nonstandard/RuntimeTraits.d#L13-L21

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--- Comment #5 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> ---
Why not "typeid(const(Object))" and "(const(Object)).classinfo" ?

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--- Comment #6 from Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> ---
(In reply to Steven Schveighoffer from comment #5)
> Why not "typeid(const(Object))" and "(const(Object)).classinfo" ?

The existing code will evaluate to "const(TypeInfo)". Your suggestion evaluates to "TypeInfo_Const". I guess I could hard code "const(TypeInfo)", but then I need put the whole alias declaration in a string mixin.

It's not like I don't know how work around the change. It broke my code so I reported an issue.

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--- Comment #7 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Jacob Carlborg from comment #6)
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> The existing code will evaluate to "const(TypeInfo)". Your suggestion evaluates to "TypeInfo_Const". I guess I could hard code "const(TypeInfo)", but then I need put the whole alias declaration in a string mixin.

OK, I see now.

Honestly, I don't see this as a regression. TypeInfo was not meant to be instantiated by user code. The fact that it worked I don't think was intended, just an accident (The runtime obviously never instantiates a direct TypeInfo, it's always a subclass).

I recommend employing a workaround and closing this bug.

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