Bug in using string mixins inside of a struct?

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 21:28:16 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote:
> I get these errors
>
> aggregate.d(11): Error: variable aggregate.A.c!("y").c cannot 
> use template to add field to aggregate 'A'
> aggregate.d(6): Error: template instance aggregate.A.c!("y") 
> error instantiating
>
> from compiling the following code
>
> struct A
> {
>     void b()
>     {
>         size_t y;
>         mixin(c!("y"));
>     }
>
>     template c(string x)
>     {
>         const char[] c = "
>             while(" ~ x ~ " < 100)
>             {
>                 " ~ x ~ "++;
>             }";
>     }
> }
>
> I can only find bug 276 
> (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=276) which seems 
> related but looks like it was fixed.
>
> I am using dmd 2.062 on Ubuntu Linux 12.10.
>
> Is this a bug? Or maybe bad code?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joseph

It's bad code. What were you hoping for the code to do?