typeof(typename) fails silently

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> Code like the following:
>
>
> static if(is(typeof(int))) { pragma(msg, "hi"); }
>
> used to work just fine (ie. it used to print "hi") even though typeof was
> being used to evaluate a type.  Now apparently the same tests fail, but they
> do so silently.  If typeof isn't supposed to be used to evaluate types,
> could we _please_ get a compile error about this?  I've just discovered that
> a bunch of Tango code silently stopped working when this change was
> implemented and it would have been great if the build had simply failed on
> what is now apparently an illegal operation.
>
>
> Sean
>

Oh but Sean, anything illegal inside an is() expression doesn't give an error!

FUN.