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[Marcin Kuszczak]

Aziz K. wrote:

>> Above is ok. for me currently, but I have different problem:
>>
>> void main() {
>> class A {}
>> static assert(is( typeof(new A) == typeof(A)) ); // 1
>> static assert(is( typeof(new int*) == typeof(int*) )); // 2
>> }
>>
>> First assert compiles, but the second one not.
> 
> The second one doesn't compile because it isn't syntactically correct.
> The error lies in "typeof(int*)". You are feeding the typeof expression
> with a "Type" ("int*"), but it expects an "Expression" (like "int.max",
> "new A", "2+5i" etc.) The purpose of typeof is to evaluate (without
> side-effects) the expression contained in it and return the type of that.
> 
> Regards,
> Aziz

Thanks but explanation. But I think that somethink is wrong here anyway.
Please see first example. 'A' is also not expression, but it compiles
properly. Maybe it would not be a big problem to extend typeof in such a
way that it can accept types also.

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