January 04, 2006
In article <dpet5r$16g0$3@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>"Craig Black" <cblack@ara.com> wrote in message news:dpej71$s0i$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>> (foo(i) / bar(j)).typeof var;
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>That leads to parsing problems, unfortunately, as it becomes difficult to recognize a declaration vs an expression.

Walter, what do you think about my idea of (optionally) disambiguating
declarations from expressions?

Ciao


January 04, 2006
Matthew wrote:
> "Craig Black" <cblack@ara.com> wrote in message
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>>>Perhaps, but sizeof is evaluated at compile time as well.
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>>This does seem odd.  If it doesn't overcomplicate the compiler, then
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> typeof
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>>should be consistent with the rest of the "*of" family.
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> My 2 cents: all should be non-member operators, a la typeof.

Actually, that's not a bad idea at all, at least for the *of() ops.  Mister Bright?

-- Chris Sauls
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