[Issue 19029] New: Provide alias symbol name trait
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Tue Jun 26 14:13:35 UTC 2018
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19029
Issue ID: 19029
Summary: Provide alias symbol name trait
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P1
Component: dmd
Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
Reporter: radu.racariu at gmail.com
Currently there is no way to get the name of the alias for a symbol type.
For example the following:
===
void main()
{
import std.traits;
size_t s;
pragma(msg, typeof(s).stringof);
pragma(msg, mangledName!(typeof(s)));
pragma(msg, mangledName!s);
}
===
Prints
---
ulong
m
_D9onlineapp4mainFZ1sm
---
For code generation porpoises (eg. generate C wrapper code) there is no way to
get the type of `s` as `size_t` because `size_t` is an alias.
A new trait, `__traits(aliasName, symbol)`, could be used to retrieve the alias
name for a symbol type.
This trait will return the name of the concrete type if the symbol type is not
an alias.
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