Mixin analysis support for templated arguments possible?

[jacobkemple]

On Saturday, 2 March 2019 at 08:09:00 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 01/03/2019 21:17, jacobkemple wrote:
>> So below, if I type  "t." in visual D pops intellisense parses 
>> it right and it shows example1 as a ubyte, however, if I set 
>> it to lets say foo!T[] (or anything else templated) 
>> intellisense breaks support for mixins in this situation 
>> despite the code working.
>> 
>> mixin template StructVar(int offset, T, string name)
>> {
>>     mixin("struct {"
>>           ~ "private ubyte[" ~ offset.stringof ~ "] _;"
>>           ~ T.stringof ~ " " ~ name ~ ";"
>>           ~ "}");
>> }
>> 
>> unittest
>> {
>>     struct TestStruct
>>     {
>>         union
>>         {
>>             mixin StructVar!(0x10, ubyte, "example1");
>>         }
>>     }
>> 
>>     TestStruct t;
>>     t.example1 = 0x71;
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Future support possible or is it a bug by any chance? Looked 
>> at the code on github but fairly complicated to dive into 
>> mixin analysis wise.
>
> Don't expect wonders, but this problem is "just" that the 
> stringof property of template instances doesn't evaluate to the 
> correct string, i.e. "foo" instead of "foo!int".
>
> This should help for the next release: 
> https://github.com/aBothe/D_Parser/pull/218

If the issue is as you describe, simply checking if a template 
type (I assume with checks for the ! token in some fashion?) 
exist inside the template instance, parse the remainder? I am 
fairly new to D but that seems reasonable if that is really the 
issue here.