ModuleInfo, factories, and unittesting

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 00:00:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 12/18/16 6:48 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 16:53:24 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>[...]
>>
>> Don't forget that typeinfos are classes too, which makes the 
>> class
>> attribute approach less attractive.
>>
>>>[...]
>>
>> Module (static) ctors & dtors need MI.
>
> Cool cool cool. Thanks.
>
>>>[...]
>>
>> We have __traits(getUnitTests,...) but the way to do DIY 
>> unittests is
>> foreach(m; ModuleInfo)
>>     foreach(test; __traits(getUnitTests,m)
>>         test();
>
> Noice. Wait, the top foreach iterates what?

All the ModuleInfos in the binary. This confused the hell out of 
me when I was starting to learn D, since unit-threaded was my 
first project.

Atila