loop through specific class members

[Trass3r]

Christopher Wright schrieb:
> On the other hand, you can get the non-final, non-private methods of a 
> class with something like:
> foreach (member; __traits (allMembers, Class))
> {
>     foreach (overload; __traits (getVirtualFunctions, Class, member))
>     {
>         // do stuff
>     }
> }
> 
> Naturally, __traits and foreach don't mix, so you'll have to use 
> template recursion. This is pretty damn ugly.
> 

But why doesn't that work? It doesn't even work when forced to run at 
compile time by CTFE.
Had a look at the compiler code, it uses the same mechanism as 
pragma(msg, for example, so shouldn't something like the above 
theoretically be possible?