typeof alias in templates
Don
nospam at nospam.com.au
Tue Jul 22 06:21:12 PDT 2008
bearophile wrote:
> In a template I need both the name and type of a given variable, but I have found a problem that can be shown with this simple code:
>
> template Bar(string name) {
> pragma(msg, name);
> }
> template Foo(alias A) {
> alias Bar!(A.stringof) Foo;
> }
> void main() {
> int x = 10;
> alias Foo!(x) Nothing;
> }
>
> I'd like this code to print "x" instead of "int". Is this a bug of DMD V.1.033?
>
> (At the moment I have solved the problem giving the template the name of the variable, and then finding its type with typeof(mixin("name")), but it's a less elegant solution).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
A bug. Workaround:
template Foo(alias A) {
alias Bar!(A.stringof ~ "") Foo;
}
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