Recording object states

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:47:10 +0200, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just thought it's really cool how D makes this possible and very
> easy to do. Check it out:
>
> http://codepad.org/yA8ju9u0
>
> I was thinking of using something like this in code samples for a
> library (e.g. CairoD), where a Recorder object like this would capture
> the states of some shape and then generate a series of images on how
> that shape changes over several function calls. And this could easily
> be injected into HTML documentation.
>
> Thanks to opDispatch I would only have to rewrite a small portion of
> my sample code, replacing "Shape" ctor calls with Recorder(Shape())
> calls.

You might want to consider a template constraint on opDispatch:

auto opDispatch(string method, Args...)(Args args) if  
(is(typeof(mixin("t."~method))))

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   Simen