https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24323

--- Comment #1 from Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> ---
Actually, the number of variable terms is irrelevant; the equation just needs to be simplified and the variable terms will naturally be cancelled out.

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24323

Dennis <dkorpel@live.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Dennis <dkorpel@live.nl> ---
> I can't possibly be the first one to report this, what's the reason? Just hard to implement the bit of algebra required?

You're right: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/4209
The difficulty is determining how this would fit with the rest of constant
folding.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 13700 ***

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24323

--- Comment #3 from Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> ---
Difficult or otherwise, it's a pretty lame hole, and it's been that way for decades. It should be done.

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