How is the D programming language financed?

[Mafi]

Am 24.12.2010 10:41, schrieb spir:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:18:06 -0600
> Andrei Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote:
>
>>> module testmodule;
>>>
>>> import std.string : split;
>>> import std.stdio : writeln;
>>>
>>> string modulename = split(.stringof)[1];
>>>
>>> void main()
>>> {
>>>       writeln(modulename);
>>> }
>>
>> What the... I didn't know you can do that. Thanks for the tip!
>
> What is this syntactic form (".something")? Is there an explicit alternative, with a prefix?
>
> Denis
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>
> spir.wikidot.com
>
A leading dot means looking up at the module's scope. An explicit prefix 
would be the module name but then you're back at hardcoding the 
modulename. And stringof is a special property of everything (I think) 
which gives you a compile-time string out of it.

Mafi