Anyone have a function to print out the field name and its value?

[Robert Clipsham]

On 09/04/2011 18:44, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 4/9/11, Andrej Mitrovic<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> That's great, I can use it to print out all the fields. Thanks!
>
> Some error checking should be done, or maybe there's a bug. If a field
> has a type that is a typedef to say a void*:
> typedef void* HANDLE
>
> struct S
> {
>      HANDLE hnd;
> }
>
> Printing hnd will fail with an error:
>
> D:\DMD\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\format.d(1599): Error:
> function std.format.formatValue!(LockingTextWriter,HANDLE,immutable(char)).formatValue
> is deprecated
> D:\DMD\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\format.d(308): Error:
> template instance
> std.format.formatGeneric!(LockingTextWriter,HANDLE,immutable(char))
> error instantiating
> D:\DMD\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(701):
> instantiated from here:
> formattedWrite!(LockingTextWriter,immutable(char),HANDLE)
> D:\DMD\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(1598):        instantiated
> from here: writefln!(string,HANDLE)
> hello_msg.d(35):        instantiated from here: writefln!(string,HANDLE)
> hello_msg.d(129):        instantiated from here: print!(PAINTSTRUCT)

For now you can compile with -d, this should be reported as a bug though.

> Btw, why are we not allowed to have mixin templates that have
> statements? Why only declarations?

Dunno, never made sense to me... Could be a question for d.D.

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Robert
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