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Bug 7747 – Diagnostic should be informative for an inferred return type in a recursive call

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2012-03-21T11:36:00Z
Last change time: 2014-04-30T07:37:29Z
Keywords: diagnostic, pull
Assigned to: andrej.mitrovich
Creator: wfunction

Comments

Comment #0 by wfunction — 2012-03-21T11:36:33Z

auto fact(int n) { return n > 1 ? fact(n - 1) : 0; } // Error: forward reference to fact I think the error message could be improved... maybe something like "forward reference to inferred return type" like we get with templates?

Comment #1 by andrej.mitrovich — 2014-04-28T12:31:12Z

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3509

Comment #2 by github-bugzilla — 2014-04-30T07:37:28Z

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/09d5c9574919be2249b45b3ade2942377121c086 Fix Issue 7747 - Diagnostic should be informative for an inferred return type in a recursive call. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/e389d1cf778131a08058f0b2e780ab2ac81358b3 Merge pull request #3509 from AndrejMitrovic/Fix7747 Issue 7747 - Diagnostic should be informative for an inferred return type.