DMD 0.174 release

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 1) For the delegate .funcptr property, would it be possible for it to 
> include the context pointer as the first parameter?  Currently the .funcptr 
> allows us to get the type / call signature of the delegate but it's not 
> possible to actually use the resulting function as there is no way to pass 
> it the context short of dipping into ASM..

I don't see a reasonable way to do that at the moment.

> 2) The class/struct .tupleof property is cool, but is there any way to get 
> at the names of the corresponding fields?  Additionally, what would _really_ 
> rock my socks would be a way to get the tuple of the class/struct _methods_. 
> That would probably immediately make many kinds of reflection possible from 
> within the language.

Possibly.

> Indexing tuples rules, btw.

I think we've only begun to see what this is good for. It's so *painful* 
to do this in C++ that I don't think people have really got that far 
beyond the first steps.