[Issue 14719] Template instantiation parsed as C-style type cast

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14719

Kenji Hara <k.hara.pg at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Kenji Hara <k.hara.pg at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Yuxuan Shui from comment #0)
> (a!A)!B
>
> Which is parsed as a C-style cast.

It's not a bug. The code is parsed as:

(a!A)    // a type name a!A with parenthesis
!        // unary operator !
B        // an identifier B

so `(typename) expr` makes a C-style cast.

To do what you want, you need to write:

alias aA = a!A;
aA!B

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