TypeInfo: how much breakage?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Jul 30 01:18:23 UTC 2020


On 7/29/20 5:33 PM, Johan wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 21:00:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The new TypeInfo design offers some interesting opportunities. Some of 
>> them are possible if we break some of the existing compatibility. The 
>> documented types are:
>>
>> TypeInfo: https://dlang.org/library/object/type_info.html
>>
>> TypeInfo_Class: https://dlang.org/library/object/type_info__class.html
>>
>> I wonder to what extent people are using other undocumented 
>> derivatives of TypeInfo such as TypeInfo_Struct.
> 
> Weka does not appear to use any. (only TypeInfo_Class in one instance, 
> but only copying it, not accessing the members)

Thank you!



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