Get identifier of "this"

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 9/17/12, Andre <andre at s-e-a-p.de> wrote:
> Get identifier of "this"

You can't really get that info at runtime, a class object isn't bound
to a name, 'this' has no identifier. Symbols (like variables) have
identifiers, not objects.

> public class Bank{

Unnecessary, declarations are public by default.

>     public enum test()

'enum' has no meaning in a return type. Either it's 'auto' which
infers the return type from the function body, or it's a specific type
like 'string' (or void if no return type).

>     {
>       return "writeln(\""~__traits(identfier, this)~"\");";

typo: identifier, not identfier

>     }
> }
>

> public static void main(){

public and static have no meaning here.

> During compile time, following code should be generated:
> writeln("b");

It's not possible to mixin a string at compile-time from a string
returned from a method of an object which is instantiated at runtime.
If you want the identifier of the variable then you don't have to deal
with the 'this' reference at all, e.g.:

@property string test(alias symb)()
{
    return "writeln(\"" ~ __traits(identifier, symb) ~ "\");";
}

class Bank { }

void main()
{
    Bank b = new Bank;
    mixin(test!b);
}

Your original sample does cause a compiler ICE but I don't know if
it's worth filing since the code was invalid.