tupleof specification

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 28 15:41:54 PST 2008


"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:fpvjmp$4k7$1 at digitalmars.com...
> .tupleof is ill-specified in D1 and D2.  It does not mention:
>
> 1) What happens when it encounters anonymous nested structs and unions
> 2) What happens when it encounters private or protected members
>
> Bug 1223 (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1223) was reported 
> last May.  It has not yet been resolved.  D2 "changed" the behavior of 
> tupleof in regards to private/protected members (notice it's only 2 days 
> after the comment Andrei made on this bug) but this change has still not 
> been reflected in the spec.
>
> I request that the behavior in these two cases (and indeed, any other 
> special cases that you can think of) be clarified in both the D1 and D2 
> specs.  I also request that the bug in the bugzilla be addressed, since it 
> was reported for D1 but was never addressed.  Either mark it as 
> wontfix/invalid or backport the change from D2.

I mean, I know how important _file extensions_ are, but could I get some 
kind of response on this? 





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