Is this a new bug ?

[Newbie2019]

On Saturday, 20 July 2019 at 06:43:03 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> use `__traits(identifier)` instead of `.stringof`, see 
> https://dlang.org/spec/traits.html#identifier.
>
> as explained this is not a new bug, not even a bug according to 
> me.


I want to cast std.stdio : writefln into pure function pointer, 
so I can call it from debug pure function.  is there a way to 
work around the pure check for call  writefln ?