Getting nice print of struct for debugging
    Minty Fresh via Digitalmars-d-learn 
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    Fri Feb 24 17:30:09 PST 2017
    
    
  
On Saturday, 25 February 2017 at 01:27:09 UTC, Minty Fresh wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 11:18:15 UTC, Martin 
> Tschierschke wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Since structs are Plain-old Data and don't do inheritance, the 
> best option is a template mixin.
>
> ie.
>
>   template mixin PrettyPrint
>   {
>       string toString()
>       {
>           // . . .
>       }
>   }
>
> From there, you can mix it into any struct you want.
>
>   struct MyStruct
>   {
>       mixin PrettyPrint;
>   }
>
> If you're familiar with Rails, this is similar to a Concern.
Errata on that. Should actually be declared as:
   mixin template PrettyPrint()
This is why I shouldn't make posts from my phone.
    
    
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