Mixin/static if issue

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:16:39PM +0000, DLearner via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Please see below:
> ```
> void main() {
>    import std.stdio;
> 
>    uint TestVar = 5;
> 
>    string mxnWrite_Size_t(string VarName) {
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Obviously, VarName is a string. Why would you expect anything else?


>       static if (typeof(VarName).stringof == "uint") {
[[...]

I think what you meant to write is:

       static if (typeof(mixin(VarName)).stringof == "uint") {

You want the type of the variable named by VarName, not the type of
VarName.


T

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