On 23 February 2012 13:15, BLM <blm768@gmail.com> wrote:
> After messing around for a while, I figured out what is making DMD choke on my file. The methods were defined in the base class using template mixins, and apparently DMD doesn't like it when mixins, inheritance, overloading, and aliases are all in the same piece of code :)

And the award for "Most Meta Code" goes too...

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:06:52AM +1300, James Miller wrote:
> On 23 February 2012 13:15, BLM <blm768@gmail.com> wrote:
> > After messing around for a while, I figured out what is making DMD choke on my file. The methods were defined in the base class using template mixins, and apparently DMD doesn't like it when mixins, inheritance, overloading, and aliases are all in the same piece of code :)
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> And the award for "Most Meta Code" goes too...
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I dunno, but "most meta" to me implies recursive mixins...


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On 24 February 2012 12:06, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:06:52AM +1300, James Miller wrote:
>> On 23 February 2012 13:15, BLM <blm768@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > After messing around for a while, I figured out what is making DMD choke on my file. The methods were defined in the base class using template mixins, and apparently DMD doesn't like it when mixins, inheritance, overloading, and aliases are all in the same piece of code :)
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>> And the award for "Most Meta Code" goes too...
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> I dunno, but "most meta" to me implies recursive mixins...
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> For every argument for something, there is always an equal and opposite argument against it. Debates don't give answers, only wounded or inflated egos.

True, I guess the "Most Meta Code" would be something that combines recursive mixins, string mixins, inheritance, overriding, overloading, aliases and is all inside a recursive template. Bonus points if the final result is a quine.

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James Miller

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:24:03PM +1300, James Miller wrote:
> On 24 February 2012 12:06, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:06:52AM +1300, James Miller wrote:
> >> On 23 February 2012 13:15, BLM <blm768@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > After messing around for a while, I figured out what is making DMD choke on my file. The methods were defined in the base class using template mixins, and apparently DMD doesn't like it when mixins, inheritance, overloading, and aliases are all in the same piece of code :)
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> >> And the award for "Most Meta Code" goes too...
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> > I dunno, but "most meta" to me implies recursive mixins...
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> True, I guess the "Most Meta Code" would be something that combines recursive mixins, string mixins, inheritance, overriding, overloading, aliases and is all inside a recursive template. Bonus points if the final result is a quine.
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You forgot reflection. The quine would generate itself by reflecting upon itself and reproducing itself via aliasing recursive mixins (by which I mean string mixins that contain "mixin" in the string, recursively) into a recursive template that generates a class hierarchy.

Bonus points if the code *in theory* would reproduce itself, but actually causes dmd to run into an infinite loop. :P


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