Alias template parameters and runtime functions
    Peter Alexander 
    peter.alexander.au at gmail.com
       
    Sun Oct  3 05:26:33 PDT 2010
    
    
  
This post has two questions:
1. What are the semantics of 'alias' template parameters when initialised using runtime functions,
e.g.:
class Foo
{
  int[] data;
  int foo(int i) { return data[i]; }
  auto allFoo()
  {
    auto fun = (int i) { return foo(i); };
    // alternatively: auto fun = &this.foo; (same result)
    return map!(fun)(iota(data.length));
  }
}
This compiles, but gives you an access violation when you try to use it. Alias is a compile time
construct (if I am not mistaken), so why does the compiler allow this?
2. How can I achieve what allFoo() above is trying to do? Obviously I could just return data in this
trivial case, but imagine that foo(int) did something more complex, and I didn't want to repeat the
logic of foo(int) in allFoo().
Thanks.
    
    
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