Run-time reflection for class inheritance

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Sunday, 1 December 2019 at 12:26:03 UTC, Michael Green wrote:
> I don't know if this would be a sensible approach to try and 
> get at the actual class types for objects stored in some 
> container at runtime?

You can get the type at runtime by simply casting it...

if(auto c = cast(EventSocket) event) {
    // is an event socket
}


and then you can actually use the c object too.

Or if you put the necessary functionality in the interface then 
you simply call the method - this is better object-oriented 
design as it reduces the necessary knowledge for the function to 
use the object.