ch-ch-changes

[Max Samukha]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:46:29 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

>Max Samukha wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:01:29 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> The thing is, passing by alias allows you a host of options:
>>>
>>> * string for short functions
>>> * function name
>>> * delegate literal
>>> * delegate object (there's a bug in the compiler related to that, that 
>>> Walter knows how to fix)
>> Does that mean that we'll be able to do this:
>> 
>> struct S
>> {
>>       bool foo(int a, int b)
>>      {
>>            return a > b;
>>      }
>> }
>> 
>> sort!(&S().foo)(a);
>> 
>> ?
>
>That I'm not sure about.
>
>Andrei

Compiler probably could create hidden locals for expressions not
evaluatable at compile time and then alias those into the template? We
can do that manually, but maybe the compiler could help here?

Anyway, it's a petty issue.