Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-23 02:10, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2011-12-22 17:22:59 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:
>
>> On 2011-12-22 16:56, Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> The benefit of referencing classes within module info: you can
>>> instantiate them using Object.factory, if they have a default
>>> constructor. We pay a heavy price compared to what we get with this very
>>> limited runtime reflection.
>>
>> It's a really nice feature to have when implementing serialization.
>
> True, for serialization and other things. I'm not arguing against the
> feature.
>
> What I am observing is that the the capabilities of D's runtime
> reflection are quite small compared to the footprint it has. We often
> hear on this list about how adding more information about functions and
> fields to typeinfo would bloat executables, yet I am under the
> impression the biggest part of that bloat (the code of all the virtual
> functions and whatever they call, even if you don't use those functions
> or even the class) is already part of each and every D executable, only
> we don't realize this because it is not exposed in the API, it just sits
> there in a mostly non-interpretable form (the vtable).
>

If that's the case I think we should take advantage of the already 
available data in the executables to implement better runtime reflection.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg