__traits(getAttributes, ...) gets attributes for the first overload only

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Dec 5 15:07:18 PST 2015


On 12/5/15 6:04 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 12/5/15 5:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/05/2015 04:30 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 5 December 2015 at 20:44:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Working on the big-oh thing I noticed that for an overloaded function,
>>>> __traits(getAttributes, ...) applied to overloaded functions only
>>>> fetches attributes for the first syntactically present overload. Bug
>>>> or feature?
>>>
>>> Did you use it in a loop with __traits(getOverloads) too?
>>>
>>> Borrowing from the doc example:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Thanks, the code is easy to fix but my question is in regard to a
>> potential bug. -- Andrei
>
> What is the behavior you would expect?

Error.

> It's somewhat consistent with taking the delegate of an overloaded
> function.

It was my thinking that in D order of declarations shouldn't ever 
matter. -- Andrei


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