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Bug 2600 – Nonuniform treatment of built-in types and user-defined types in value syntax

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: DUPLICATE
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: x86
OS: Linux
Creation time: 2009-01-21T11:22:00Z
Last change time: 2015-06-09T01:27:39Z
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: andrei

Comments

Comment #0 by andrei — 2009-01-21T11:22:39Z

The following code doesn't compile and it should: alias int A; void main() { auto x = A(4); } All types, built-in and user-defined, must offer the ability of construction with type name followed by a parenthesized list of arguments.

Comment #1 by wbaxter — 2009-01-25T18:35:14Z

This has my vote.

Comment #2 by andrej.mitrovich — 2013-02-04T18:06:46Z

Issue9112 has a pull request and more info. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 9112 ***