Help me escape optional parens hell
Meta via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 24 10:38:30 PDT 2017
On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 08:08:33 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Meta wrote:
>
>> So I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. This is driving me
>> insane.
>
> aaaah. known $#^#$@^@%.
>
> enum SymName = (&symbol).stringof[2..$]; // this, instead of
> symbol.stringof
>
> dirty hack, let's hope that DMD devs won't change `.toString()`
> output (i.e. first two chars will always be "& ").
>
> besides this, i know no other way to stop compiler from calling
> the function there.
It's dirty but I guess I'll have to go with this hack for the
time being.
Also, I filed a bug:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17546
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