full ident name without mangle/demange?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-03-10 09:44, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Tomek Sowiñski"<just at ask.me>  wrote in message
> news:20110309225011.3e9e1d3b at Las-Miodowy...
>> Nick Sabalausky napisa³:
>>
>>> Is there a way to get the fully-qualified name of an identifier without
>>> doing "demange( mangledName!(foo) )"?
>>
>> Heh, looks like there isn't. It may be worth filing an enhancement request
>> for __traits(fullyQualifiedName, foo).
>>
>
>
> Yea, I guess so.
>
>
>> BTW, what do you need it for?
>>
>
>
> Well, it's kind of round-about: It's to obtain the module name of an
> identifier. This, in turn, is for a trick to automatically detect and print
> the name of the current module in a unittest tool:
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/semitwist/browser/trunk/src/semitwist/util/unittests.d?rev=202#L177
>
> It had been working using mangledName and demangle, but it broke when I
> updated to DMD 2.052:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5718
>
> I did eventually manage to work around the issue, though, at least in my
> particular case.
>
> But I figure if I'm going to get either the fully-qualified name or a module
> name, why have the CPU even go through the bother of sending it through the
> potentially error-prone and/or non-CTFE-compatible noop of mangle->demange?
>
> That in mind, something like __traits(moduleName, foo) and
> __traits(thisModuleName) would probably be good enhancement suggestions,
> too.  :)

Not sure but if I recall correctly you can do ".stringof" to get the 
name of the module.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg