Get the name of a function and the parameters?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:03 AM, grauzone <none at example.net> wrote:
> 
>> Wow, it actually works. But I really don't understand why. It seems the
>> compiler directly passes symbols as tuple arguments, and later dumbs it down
>> to what it needs (like an alias, a type, ...).
>>
>> Makes me think nobody will ever be able to write a separate bug-free DMD
>> frontend. I'm scared.
> 
> Precisely.  There is no principle of least surprise in the DMD
> metaprogramming implementation.  There is no consistency.  And worst
> of all, there is no specification.

And that tears down the phrase "The lexer, parser and semantic pass 
don't know each other so that it's easier to implement a compiler for 
D". Because a D compiler that doesn't use DMD's front-end is not D 
compatible. Because the front end *is* the specification of the language.