cannot interpret `cast(void)0` at compile time?

Dadoum dadoum at protonmail.com
Tue May 9 09:54:21 UTC 2023


Hello,

I am making a libplist wrapper and I am currently writing a 
template to handle associative arrays and preserve the order of 
the keys in the conversion process. (I already talked a bit about 
that 
[here](https://forum.dlang.org/post/pxevvegnaqueprwrkfos@forum.dlang.org))

I have `plistConvert` which is a function with a lot of overloads 
to convert any other type to its plist counterpart already, and I 
want to have a template `pl` to convert associative arrays to 
PlistDict. Here is the code:

```d
import std.stdio;
// stubs
class PlistDict {public void opIndexAssign(Plist element, string 
key) {writeln("key added: ", key);}}
class Plist {}
Plist plistConvert(T)(T val) => new Plist();

struct Wrapper {
	Plist delegate() val;
}

private Plist convertToPlist(alias U)() {
	return U.plistConvert();
}

// Preserves the order since associative arrays are hashed at 
runtime.
template pl(alias U) {
	static if (is(typeof(U): Wrapper[string])) {
		pragma(inline, true) PlistDict pl() {
			auto dict = new PlistDict();
			static foreach (k, v; U) {
				dict[k] = v.val();
			}
			return dict;
		}
	} else {
		static if (is(typeof(() => U.plistConvert()) == delegate)) {
			enum a = &convertToPlist!U;
			pragma(msg, a.stringof);
			enum pl = Wrapper(a);
		} else {
			enum pl = Wrapper(() => U.plistConvert());
		}
	}
}


void main() {
	auto runtimeValue = "tac";

	auto request = pl!([
		"constantKey": pl!"CONSTANT",
		"runtimeKey": pl!runtimeValue
	]);
}
```

Transforming the associative array into an associative array of 
delegates was a trick given by ag0aep6g in the other thread, but 
now I encounter a new error: `Error: cannot interpret 
`cast(void)0` at compile time`. No line given  or anything on DMD 
or LDC2 (on GDC it's giving a line in std.math.exponential???).

The problem lies here:

```d
			pragma(msg, a.stringof);
			enum pl = Wrapper(a);
```

because if Wrapper gets a random argument, it will work.

Also, giving a lambda to Wrapper as such: `enum pl = Wrapper(() 
=> U.plistConvert());` \
is also not working:
```
delegate `app.pl(alias U)` is a nested function and cannot be 
accessed from `app.pl!(["constantKey":Wrapper(() pure nothrow 
@safe => plistConvert("CONSTANT")), "runtimeKey":Wrapper(delegate 
() pure nothrow @safe => plistConvert(runtimeValue))]).pl
```

So I feel kind of blocked, I don't understand the first error and 
the second one seems to not be resoluble in this design.

Any thoughts?


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