cannot evalute mixin(uuid("bla")) at compile time

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:52:14 -0400, Philippe Sigaud  
<philippe.sigaud at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 14:48, Steven Schveighoffer  
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:35:18 -0400, Richard Webb  
>> <webby at beardmouse.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>
>
>>     I haven't worked out whats causing the problem yet, though looking  
>> at
>> the Phobos
>>
>>> code i'm not sure what the
>>>
>>>       is(char[1 + Range.empty]))
>>>
>>
>> Not sure either, but empty called on a string should be evaluatable at
>> compile time.  You should file a bug with a minimal example.
>>
>
> Isn't that the trick used to test for infinite ranges? Infinite ranges  
> are
> defined to have an  'enum bool empty = false' member. So, for an infinite
> range, 1+Range.empty is a compile-time expression that can be used as
> dimension for a static array.
> Else, .empty is a function and I suppose the is() returns false.
>
> Or something like that, anyway.

Hm..., then shouldn't that be is(typeof(...))?

-Steve