introduce membername and DDocComment Property?

Don Clugston dac at nospam.com.au
Thu Dec 7 06:40:24 PST 2006


davidl wrote:
> when a project grows, as we can see the big Reactos project debugging 
> method is really need to be brushed up.
> Consider in Source File A
> and A imports B
> B imports C,D,E,F,G.....
> tons of source files are imported by B, what can we do when we want to 
> look the
> definition of a class in A effectively if we can't remember what it is, 
> or simply
> our viewers just not familiar with the whole project.
> Now some people would suggest me using DoxyGen.
> Actually I don't require a whole Doc. And generating a whole doc for a 
> big project
> is a pain in the ass.
> 
> why not introduce member's name to our tuple like we have
> class myclass
> {
>   int membera;        //membera is used for bar
>   char[] memberb;        //memberb is used for foo
> }
> 
> auto a= new myclass;
> then we have a.tuple[0].membername reference to char[] 'membera'
> and a.tuple[1].membername reference to char[] 'memberb'
> a.tuple[0].ddoc reference to 'membera is used for bar'
> a.tuple[1].ddoc reference to 'memberb is used for foo'
> 
> now we can have some meta programming for easy debugging!
> 

Rather than .membername, it would be sufficient to allow indexing and 
slicing on alias tuples. It would certainly be useful.

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