November 07, 2009
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3487

           Summary: [tdpl] Covariant returns needed for typedef
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: andrei@metalanguage.com


--- Comment #0 from Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@metalanguage.com> 2009-11-07 10:20:03 PST ---
Consider:

struct A {
    A fun() { return A.init; }
}

typedef A B;

void main() {
    B b;
    B c = b.fun();
}

The return type of a member of A must be automatically cast to B when used through a typedef. This is in order to allow B support the same methods as A. It is also consistent with typedefs of built-in types.

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November 18, 2009
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3487


Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla@digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


--- Comment #1 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> 2009-11-18 10:54:33 PST ---
Dropping typedef, so won't fix.

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