alias declaration spec

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 23:14:08 cal wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 23:09:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> 
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 22:32:44 cal wrote:
> >> Grammar spec (http://dlang.org/grammar.html#AliasDeclaration)
> >> allows:
> >> 
> >> AliasDeclaration:
> >>      alias BasicType Declarator
> >> 
> >> DMD allows:
> >> 
> >> alias ref int MyRefInt;
> >> 
> >> Is the ref storage class allowed by the current grammar spec?
> > 
> > No. ref is not part of the BasicType grammar rule. ref is only
> > legal on
> > function parameters, return types, and the variable in a
> > foreach loop and is
> > not part of the type.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> Thanks, I'll file this a grammar bug.

If anything, it's a bug that ref is allowed in an alias given that it can't be 
part of a type, and alias is used to either alias a type or a symbol.

- Jonathan M Davis