Colons and brackets

[Daniel Murphy]

"evilrat"  wrote in message news:mxhmgkljrzqhaymeclvk at forum.dlang.org...
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:19:47 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
> >
> > How do you stop statements from belonging to the specific version of 
> > code without using brackets?
>
> add "version(all):" after code where specific version ends.

This is incorrect, there is no way to do this.

The compiler translates
version(...):
...

into
version(...)
{
...
}

So any version labels after the first are moved inside the first.

You can see it with this code:

version = y;
version(x):
pragma(msg, "versionx");
version(y):
pragma(msg, "versiony");

Nothing is printed, because the version(y) block is inside the version(x) 
block, and version(x) is not set.

The answer: use braces.