Tango Conference 2008 - Tomasz Stachowiak and Piotr Modzelewski gamedev

[Tom S]

bearophile wrote:
> The serialization example, page 21 of the slides, is interesting. The API/syntax they use doesn't look too much readable, but such functionality is probably quite useful in certain kinds of D programs. So D may enjoy a little more handy ways to manage its reflective information. Avoiding most of such serialization hack.

I'd be more than happy to see some wider support from D in this regard, 
but for now we're stuck with D1 and such hacks ;)


> The following code is cleaned/improved from the OMG:
> http://team0xf.com:8080/omg/file/aca17fefefc1/core/Algebra.d
> But does it work? Strings turns up being "summable", but if you actually add them you get an "Array operations not implemented" error:

Ah well, SFINAE fails here :P No sane person will be using these for 
strings anyway ;) The traits are used mostly to be inline documentation 
about what features the user defined type must provide.


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Tomasz Stachowiak
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