Mixins: Using the type name to generate a method name

[Robert Rouse]

stringof did it.

I'm still reading through the D programming book, so I guess I 
hadn't gotten there yet. I did a search in the book and found a 
reference.

I'll read more. Thanks :)

On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 19:48:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 19:42:42 UTC, Robert Rouse 
> wrote:
>>    mixin("alias _method " ~ toLower(typeid(T)) ~ ";" );
>
>
> Try using T.stringof instead of typeid(T).
>
> typeid does a runtime lookup. T.stringof does magic to
> get a string representation of the thing at compile time.
>
>
> Since, in the template, T here is a type, you get a string
> of that type.
>
> .stringof is a bit of magic that can work in a lot of places.
> last time I checked though, it is pretty poorly documented,
> so might take some guess and check to make it work for you.