Templates and stringof...

David Nadlinger see at klickverbot.at
Sat Aug 4 01:08:27 PDT 2012


On Saturday, 4 August 2012 at 08:06:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Saturday, August 04, 2012 09:57:36 Philippe Sigaud wrote:
>> For std.reflection that Andrei proposed 2 weeks ago, I feel 
>> the internal
>> code will contain many __traits() calls. Nothing to be done 
>> about it.
>> __traits is *the* way compile-time introspection is done in D.
>
> That and std.traits. Between those two and the power of is 
> expressions, that's
> where the ability to do compile-time introspection comes from.

There is nothing wrong about __traits, just about .stringof resp. 
__traits(identifier) in conjunction with string mixins.

David


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