Aliasing a mixin (or alternative ways to profile a scope)

[Simon]

On Saturday, 9 March 2019 at 09:12:13 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Friday, 8 March 2019 at 11:42:11 UTC, Simon wrote:
>> Thanks, this works flawlessly. Out of interest: what is the 
>> "enum" doing there? I had the exact same behaviour in a 
>> function before, that I only called at compile-time, so why 
>> did it complain then? Can I somehow tell the compiler that a 
>> function should only be available at compile-time?
>
> The enum (which in D is not only for enumerations, but also for 
> "manifest constants") ensures it is evaluated at compile-time, 
> since things are only evaluated at compile-time if they have to.
> See also Adam D. Ruppe's post in this thread:
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/blaawtdhljjantvgafud@forum.dlang.org

Thanks!