dmd error - unrecognized file extension

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 02:12:13PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On 1/29/18 12:25 PM, Evan Burkey wrote:
> > Hi there, I have a problem that is eluding me, hoping someone can
> > help me see the light. I'm on Windows 10 using the latest version of
> > dmd. I have a directory with 2 files: "version.txt" and
> > "versioncheck.d".  version.txt contains a single line of text. I
> > have the line:
> > 
> >      immutable version = import("version.txt");
> 
> version is a keyword, you can't use it here like this. Not sure if
> this is related to your issue directly, but definitely it will show up
> as an error when the compiler looks at it properly.
[...]

Granted, though, the error message could have been a lot more helpful
than it is.  As it stands, it didn't even occur to me that `version`
being a keyword was the problem here until you pointed it out. That's a
sign that the compiler error message needs improvement. :-)


T

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