RFC: dispatchToMember 2, electric boogaloo

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/13/15 11:59 PM, Meta wrote:
> On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 03:55:13 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> I've finally got around to fixing some bugs that were blocking
>> dispatchToMember, and I've now got a working solution that's ready for
>> destruction. Something I remember Andrei mentioning was controlling
>> overloads, which I have not implemented and will significantly
>> complicate the implementation. That bridge can be crossed once all the
>> more trivial issues are ironed out.
>>
>> https://github.com/MetaLang/phobos/commit/f31752c70dc56ca0b7bd963e891346942964a806
>>
>>
>> Please destroy.
>
> Link to previous thread:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mi3pip$22va$1@digitalmars.com

Nice work, though I see it fails to compile if the member does not 
define the member. I noticed sometimes "dispatchToMemberIfPresent" is 
useful, too, and allows for flexible composition and good introspection. 
So having both would be great.

Andrei