https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24791

Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> ---
The argument must be an AssignExpression. https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#msg

There is no postfix `*` operator, so it fails to parse.

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24791

Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> changed:

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            Summary|Expression doesn't work     |pragma(msg, BasicType
                   |                            |TypeSuffix) doesn't parse

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24791

--- Comment #2 from Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> ---
I don't really care for reasons; this is an obvious bug:

pragma(msg, int);  // > int
pragma(msg, int*); // > int*

alias X = int;
pragma(msg, X);    // > int
pragma(msg, X*);   // error!


Edge cases like this just randomly break meta-programming.
We especially depend on pragma(msg) to understand and debug meta-programming.

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