Challenge

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4 October 2016 at 12:30, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 11:13:36 Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I'm feeling John's solution is a little bit simpler. But nice work, thanks!
>
> So, it is. LOL. I'd actually glanced over that post while I was in the
> middle of getting my version to work, and I read it too quickly, because I
> understood that it had just solved the property problem and that it didn't
> work for all cases. I'll have to update my PR. Though his code does make the
> mistake of doing
>
> mixin(`alias mem = T.` ~ member ~ `;`);
>
> rather than doing something like
>
> alias mem = AliasSeq!(__traits(getMember, T, member))[0];
>
> which means that there are some cases where it won't work properly. The core
> logic is simpler though, which is definitely a plus.

Make that change in your PR :)
I think the PR is important. It's not obvious how to do this, and it's
very useful. I was astonished it's not already there.