September 26, 2022 - tip of the week to bypass IFTI

First issue with wontfix bug report and tip of the week about bypassing IFTI

Core D Development Statistics

• 17 bugs fixed
• 21 bugs and enhancement requests opened
• Bugs closed WONTFIX:
  • Disallow assignments in ?: expressions
• Bugs closed INVALID: none this week
• 32 pull requests merged into the language: 24 into DMD, 8 into Phobos, and 0 into druntime.
• 7 pull requests merged into the website.

In the community

Community announcements

• DConf '22 Day One Videos
• Binary Literals Not Going Anywhere
• Meanwhile on the audio front
• DIP 1043---Shortened Method Syntax---Accepted
• Reminder: DConf Online '22 Submission Deadline (and website now live)

See more at the announce forum.

Tip of the Week

A user on the discord chat asked if there was a way to force explicit type argument, bypassing IFTI. The user Mayonix had a solution:

template foobar(T) {
    T realFoobar(T t) {
        return t;
    }
    
    alias foobar = realFoobar;
}

void main()
{
    foobar(3); // Error: It isn't smart enough to see through the alias
    
    foobar!int(3); // Works fine!
}