Strange behaviour in templates (Another bug?)
Tobias Pankrath
tobias at pankrath.net
Fri Nov 11 00:19:32 PST 2011
I'm trying to learn template meta programming in D. To do this, I'm working
on a meta state machine like Boost.MSM
(http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/msm/doc/HTML/index.html).
States are types and can have sub states. If they do, they need to have
an attribut 'SubStates', which should be a TypeTuble with the
sub states.
The task at hand is: Given a State and a list of all States, create
a list of all parents of State including State itself.
This code (http://paste.pocoo.org/show/506154/) ought to do this
and it works sometimes.
You can make to interesting observations of this code:
In its current form, 'dmd test.d -unittest' will print: "
> false
But if you uncomment the first pragma() in the unittest block,
it will print
> ()
> true
If you change the body of ParentsDesc to
> alias TypeTuple!() Result;
it will also print
> true
Although the static if in ParentsDesc is never true in this
example.
What's going on?
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