Trying to forward unwrapped opDispatch names to alias this
Alex
sascha.orlov at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 11:27:23 UTC 2018
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 08:28:22 UTC, aliak wrote:
> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 01:00:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 00:42:05 UTC, aliak wrote:
>>> struct B(T) {
>>> T t;
>>> A a;
>>> alias a this;
>>> auto opDispatch(string name)() if (hasMember!(T, name)) {
>>> return mixin("t." ~ name);
>>
>> Did you perhaps mean `A` instead of `T` here? cuz in your code
>> T is int, not the struct.
>
> I don't think I did :p
>
> T is the wrapped type. So if T has a member (in the example
> it's the built in field "max") then forward that. If member not
> there then I figured the alias this would be used. I.e. in the
> example b.p should call A.p.
>
> I assume this should work because rules for alias this (as I
> understand) are to basically try if there's a member name that
> resolves the call, else forward to alias this.
There is a related ticket,
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6434
However, not exactly facing this question.
It seems, that currently opDispatch replaces alias this... (?)
Nevertheless, not only T is the wrapped type, but also A with the
alias.
What to do, if both members have a property with the same name?
And why?
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