Calling arbitrary functions at runtime?

[Kevin Balbas via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 11 December 2016 at 22:18:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 December 2016 at 22:00:27 UTC, Kevin Balbas wrote:
>> Basically, I need some way to turn an array of strings
>> into an argument list at runtime.  Is this possible?
>
> Write (or generate) a helper function that loops over the 
> Parameters!Func tuple and populates it from the strings. Call 
> the helper function.
>
>
> // declare your arguments tuple
> Parameters!Func args;
>
> // populate the arguments
> foreach(idx, ref arg; args) {
>    arg = to!(typeof(arg))(string_args[idx]);
> }
>
> Func(args); // call the function with that tuple
>
>
>
> The free sample of my book: 
> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook has 
> a more in-depth example near the end of it.

I see.  I was planning on doing a wrapper-based approach to the 
function calls if this didn't work out, but I didn't expect it'd 
be that simple.  Thanks for the tip.