equivalent of typeid(Class).name at compile-time

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 11/22/19 4:04 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 20:44:19 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I thought I could do typeid(Class).name to get the class name that 
>> will be returned at runtime if you did typeid(instance).name. But it's 
>> not accessible at compile-time.
>>
>> What compile-time string should I use for instance in a constructed 
>> switch statement? I'm trying to implement serialization and 
>> deserialization of classes, but I really would like to avoid using a 
>> class enum if possible, since the type id is already there and 
>> generated by the compiler.
> 
> I solved that by storing the class info as the key in an associative 
> array [1]. But it looks like Adam's solution will work as well.
> 
> If you ideas, you can always have a look at Orange.
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange/blob/90f1dbb0097ba4a319805bfb7d109f7038418ac6/orange/serialization/Serializer.d#L241-L262 
> 

Thanks for all the replies, guys. Annoying that the compiler has 
generated these names but doesn't make them accessible at compile-time.

-Steve