DMD 1.005 release

[Bruno Medeiros]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:eqcmo3$2u17$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
> Just wanted to add that something I find severely lacking is that there's no 
> way to get a pretty (usable, non-mangled) string representation of a type. 
> Instead we have to write large template libraries to accomplish something 
> that the compiler does _all the time_.  This means it's currently not 
> possible to do something like
> 
> template MakeVariable(Type, char[] name)
> {
>     const char[] MakeVariable = Type.nameof ~ " " ~ name ~ ";";
> }
> 
> mixin(MakeVariable!(int, "x"));
> 
> Instead we have to use a template library to demangle the name:
> 
> import ddl.meta.nameof;
> 
> template MakeVariable(Type, char[] name)
> {
>     const char[] MakeVariable = prettytypeof!(Type) ~ " " ~ name ~ ";";
> }
> 
> mixin(MakeVariable!(int, "x"));
> 
> 
> :\ 
> 
> 

Well, actually you can do that, with the unannounced (in the changelog) 
.stringof property ( http://www.digitalmars.com/d/property.html ) :

----

template MakeVariable(Type, char[] name)
{
   const char[] MakeVariable = Type.stringof ~ " " ~ name ~ ";";
}

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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