Get identifier of "this"

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, September 17, 2012 19:43:24 Andre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> assuming I have following constuct:
> 
> public class Bank{
> public enum test()
> {
> return "writeln(\""~__traits(identfier, this)~"\");";
> }
> }
> 
> public static void main(){
> Bank b = new Bank;
> mixin(b.test());
> }
> 
> During compile time, following code should be generated:
> writeln("b");
> 
> Is this possible? For the demo coding I receive the error, that
> "this"
> has no identifier.

No. It's not possible. __traits is a compile-time construct, and Bank's 
definition knows nothing about any variables of type Bank declared elsewhere. 
Heck, the code for Bank could be compiled months before the code with b in it 
is even written (and then has the code with Bank linked to it when it's 
compiled). So no, it can't know about b, and what you're trying to do won't 
work.

- Jonathan M Davis