traits getProtection

[deadalnix]

Le 04/04/2012 03:04, Robert Jacques a écrit :
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:30:25 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe
> <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 at 13:14:00 UTC, Robert Jacques wrote:
>>> As someone who has implemented a runtime reflection library in
>>> D, it is entirely possible to detect whether a function is
>>> marked private/protected or not using __traits today.
>>
>> How did you do it? __traits(compiles) is the best I could
>> find, and that breaks down if you are friends (easy to
>> happen with mixins, even if the code is in a separate file)
>> and is kinda fragile in general since it will swallow unrelated
>> errors too.
>
> I did it by having all the inspection routines in a private template
> inside a struct in another module.

That is neat.

It should be provided as lib by std.traits . And no need for language 
changes.