[Issue 3998] BasicType2 rule shouldn't have slice syntax

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Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> 2010-03-21 22:31:02 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> It doesn't make sense to have array slice be part of the BasicType2 rule.  This
> rule is for type constructs and array slices only make sense in expressions.

They aren't array slices. They're tuple slices, eg:

template T(E...){
    alias E T;
}
void main(){
    alias T!(char,int,float) K;
    alias K[1..$] J; // (int, float)
}

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