Presence of constructor causes type deduced to be mutable
Ali Çehreli
acehreli at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 4 16:18:23 PST 2013
I am losing my mind! :)
What do you expect the type of 's' be?
struct S
{
int[] arr;
this(int[] arr)
{
this.arr = arr;
}
}
void main()
{
auto arr = [ 1 ];
auto s = immutable(S)(arr); // What is the type of s here?
}
I thought that it would be immutable(S). Didn't we have those
discussions about 'auto' meaning more "automatic type deduction" these
days other than "automatic storage duration"? I remember that it used to
be the case. Not so with dmd 2.062:
assert(is (typeof(s) == S)); // Passes
s.arr[0] = 3; // Compiles
The interesting thing is, the presence of the constructor is the cause
of this. Remove the constructor and the type of 's' becomes immutable(S)
and the code cannot be compiled as it shouldn't be:
auto s = immutable(S)(arr);
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (arr) of type int[] to
immutable(int[])
Then I try adding an immutable constructor:
this(int[] arr) // Existing
{
this.arr = arr;
}
this(int[] arr) immutable // Added
{
// ...
}
Error: constructor deneme.S.this called with argument types:
((int[]) immutable)
matches both:
[...]
Is this a known issue?
Ali
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