[Issue 1351] Discrepancies in the language specification

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1351





------- Comment #8 from aziz.kerim at gmail.com  2007-07-31 02:28 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > FunctionLiteral // missing colon
> >         function Typeopt ( ParameterList )opt FunctionBody // Allows for
> > literals like "function int {}". Is this legal?
> 
> If it weren't meant to be, surely there wouldn't be the statement
> 
> "If omitted it defaults to the empty argument list ()."

Ok, but DMD doesn't allow you to declare such delegate or function literals:
auto bla = delegate void {}; // Error: found '{' when expecting '('   (other
errors omitted)
Seems to be a bug in the compiler or the specification.

> But it does seem to be a mistake that that paragraph talks of ArgumentList
> instead of ParameterList.

Yep, ArgumentList should be ParameterList in that paragraph.


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