Annoyance: 'Shadowing declaration is deprecated'+ mixins
Tristam MacDonald
swiftcoder at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 11:09:30 PDT 2007
Bill Baxter Wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
> > Is there any chance of getting the 'shadowing declaration is deprecated'
> > error message disabled, for code inserted via a mixin?
> >
> > It means that if you inject a 'for' loop into the current function, it
> > appears to work, but will fail if another variable with the same name
> > already exists.
> >
> > void main()
> > {
> > // double i=300.0;
> > mixin("for (int i=0; i<10; ++i) { func(i); }");
> > }
> >
> > When such code is generated by a mixin, the shadowing does not indicate
> > a probable error.
> >
> > This is proving to be quite annoying for my BLADE rewrite.
>
> I guess one obvious solution is to give your counter variables some
> names that are more likely to be unique:
>
> mixin("for (int __i8473=0; __i8473<10; ++__i8473) { func(__i8473); }");
>
Hmm... This looks like a prime candidate for something like Scheme's 'gensym' call (which basically alliases an unique, un-named, and un-nameable symbol). Does anyone know of a way to accomplish the same at compile time in D?
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