Fixing spurious "statement is not reachable" in template code

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Oct 27 12:30:08 PDT 2015


On 10/27/2015 06:35 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I understand how the compiler treats it.  In some cases, the statement
> is reachable, the compiler is unhelpfully pointing out cases where it
> was unreachable.

The reachable statement is not the same as the statement that is flagged 
unreachable. This is not an implementation detail and it is not 
'incorrect'. It might be changed if the consensus is that it is 
unhelpful. Personally, I usually avoid generating dead code.


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