On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr@gmx.ch> wrote:

On 06/22/2013 09:52 PM, Timothee Cour wrote:

Is there a reason the language spec disallows this?

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void main(){
    auto a=mixin("1");//OK
    alias b=a;//OK
    mixin("alias c=a;");//OK
    // alias c=mixin("a");//NG : Error: basic type expected, not mixin
}
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No, it is arbitrary.