Getting the current module as a symbol

[Mithun Hunsur via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 at 05:30:27 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 13:44:07 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for the equivalent of `typeof(this)` in module 
>> scope (so that it gets the current module). My use-case is 
>> iterating over the members of the module - right now I'm doing
>>
>> `mixin(iterateOverModule!(module.name.here));`
>>
>> but in the interests of keeping the code simple to maintain, 
>> I'd like to be able to get the current module automatically.
>>
>> Is this possible? A cursory Google search didn't turn up 
>> anything, and `this` has no meaning in module scope.
>
> Have you tried __traits(parent, someTopLevelSymbol)?
>
> Walking the __traits(parent) chain should get you to a module 
> either way, I think.

Yeah, that also works; you have to define a symbol (if you don't 
have one you can already use) in order to get to it, so it's a 
little wasteful. Still useful to know, though!