Typeof woes

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Aug 20 23:32:35 PDT 2013


On 2013-08-21 02:24, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

> I am beginning to wonder if typeof(typeof(expr)) is worthy of an
> error. Would we end up having any bugs if we were to allow typeof() to
> work on types (IOW it would just alias itself to the type)?
>
> I guess the only way to find out is to try it out in a compiler
> branch, but I'm genuinely curious.

As we have seen, not allowing typeof to accept types makes some generic 
code a bit more cumbersome to write.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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