//Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?


void foo()(){}
void bar(int){}

alias foobar = foo;
alias foobar = bar;

void main(){
	.foobar(1);		//OK
	foobar(1);		//Error: overload alias 'foo' is not a variable

}

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 10:56:33 UTC, vitus wrote:
> //Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?
>
>
> void foo()(){}
> void bar(int){}
>
> alias foobar = foo;
> alias foobar = bar;
>
> void main(){
> 	.foobar(1);		//OK
> 	foobar(1);		//Error: overload alias 'foo' is not a variable
>
> }

foo is a template, while bar is a function. I would have thought the `.foobar(1)` should have failed too... Must be some strange lookup rules I don't know about (or a dmd bug).
`alias foobar = foo!();` should make it work in both cases though.

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 10:56:33 UTC, vitus wrote:
> //Why expression 'foobar(1);' doesn't work?
>
>
> void foo()(){}
> void bar(int){}
>
> alias foobar = foo;
> alias foobar = bar;
>
> void main(){
> 	.foobar(1);		//OK
> 	foobar(1);		//Error: overload alias 'foo' is not a variable
>
> }

It works when you switch the aliases around:
----
void foo()(){}
void bar(int){}

alias foobar = bar;
alias foobar = foo;

void main(){
    foobar(1);
}
----

Definitely a bug. Please file an issue at <https://issues.dlang.org/>.

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 11:09:39 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Definitely a bug. Please file an issue at <https://issues.dlang.org/>.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14858