introspection woes (2)

[Robert Clipsham]

On 13/06/2011 13:11, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> Interesting... I think I understand...
> Thanks! :)
>
> However an other problem arise with getMembers() it always returns null!
> Looking at the code it seems (from my beginner's perspective) that
> getMembers() rely on the member field (function) xgetMembers which is
> always null, as far as I can tell (didn't see any assignment...)
>
> Anyway of ... making the runtime update xgetMembers?

My understanding is that xgetMembers is never filled in due to the 
overhead it would add. You can recompile dmd to support it, but that's a 
pain. The work around I use is to  put a mixin in every class I want to 
use which uses compile time reflection to build an array which I can 
access at runtime. Not the most elegant solution. Perhap's a bug report 
needs opening for this if one isn't already open.

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Robert
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