Bug in using string mixins inside of a struct?

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 22:35:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I didn't read the code properly.

The template should be outside of the struct, then it works.