Getting the source text of an expression
mw
mingwu at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 21:38:11 UTC 2020
On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 19:45:38 UTC, Dave P. wrote:
> In C, you can use a macro to get the source text of an
> expression as a string. For example
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #define PRINT_INT(x) printf(#x " = %d\n", x)
>
> int main(){
> // prints "3 = 3"
> PRINT_INT(3);
> int x = 4;
> // prints "x = 4"
> PRINT_INT(x);
> #define FOO 5
> // prints "FOO = 5"
> PRINT_INT(FOO);
> #define BAR FOO
> // prints "BAR = 5"
> PRINT_INT(BAR);
> return 0;
> }
>
> Is there a feature of D that allows you to achieve a similar
> goal? I’ve used this in the past for logging for example.
https://code.dlang.org/packages/jdiutil
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