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[Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 07:53:49 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>
> OT but is there any benefit to identify events with strings? As 
> long as you use compile time only events I'd prefer a syntax as 
> in https://github.com/WebFreak001/EventSystem
>
> (one benefit is that it's 100% IDE autocomplete compatible)
>
> I guess if you want runtime registration of events identifying 
> by name is useful. But then you also somehow have to encode the 
> parameter types to make the whole thing safe...

I agree. Personally, I'd probably also start with something like 
WebFreak001's ES and only think about how to add run-time 
dispatch later if I absolutely need it.