Tip of the week: use mixin to hack around order-of-eval problems

Core D Development Statistics

• 17 bugs fixed
• 15 bugs and enhancement requests opened
• 54 pull requests merged into the language: 27 into DMD, 2 into Phobos, and 25 into druntime.
• 6 pull requests merged into the website.

In the community

Community announcements

• D Language Quarterly Meeting Summary for January 2021
• From the D Blog: The Binary Language of Moisture Vaporators
• The DIID series (Do It In D)

See more at the announce forum.

Tip of the Week

This brought to you by snarwin: if you ever have an order-of-evaluation problem, mixin might help:

Before:

alias Thing = Test;

After:

mixin("alias Thing = Test;");

Just wrapping the whole thing in a mixin string. Since the compiler processes mixins in the order they appear in the source rather than in the pseudo-parallel way it normally tries to process declarations, this can force a certain order and possibly force that Thing to be processed after Test is created.