[Issue 24520] [REG] type(value) got a synonym (type)(value)

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24520

Nick Treleaven <nick at geany.org> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Nick Treleaven <nick at geany.org> ---
>         enum { A = 5};

That was allowed in https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15409.

> My issue is that a silent language change with no changelog entry and no spec change

Sorry. 

comment #4:
> the grammar already allowed calling a parenthesized expression

I don't think (Type) is always an expression - it is when Type is an
identifier, but not when (int) or even (int*), and this now works:

    int i;
    scope p = (int*)(&i);

So unless I missed some part of the grammar, I think the spec needs updating.
We can make TypeCtor optional below:

PrimaryExpression:
   TypeCtor ( Type ) ( NamedArgumentListopt )

https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#primary_expressions

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