Parens

[Janice Caron]

On 10/05/2008, Dee Girl <deegirl at noreply.com> wrote:
>  void main(string[] args)
>  {
>     auto c = new const C;
>  }
>
>  Does not compile. But if I change to const(C) it does compile. It is a bit unusual that parens make such a big difference. Thank you, Dee Girl

When it comes to parens-version versus non-parens-version, it's not
really a problem if one of the two doesn't compile. It would be a
bigger problem if both compile, but behave differently.

But I agree with you. "new const C" should behave like "new const(C)".

However, what you probably should have written is:

    const c = new C;

because "auto" is what you use in the absence of any other attribute.
In this case, it suffices to create a new C, and then assign it to a
const-thereafter variable.