Capture parameter identifier name in a template?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 05:36:40PM +0000, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> In my JavaScript VM, I have a function whose purpose is to expose
> D/host constants to the JavaScript runtime code running inside the VM.
> This makes for somewhat redundant code, as follows:
> 
> vm.defRTConst("OBJ_MIN_CAP"w, OBJ_MIN_CAP);
> vm.defRTConst("PROTO_SLOT_IDX"w, PROTO_SLOT_IDX);
> vm.defRTConst("FPTR_SLOT_IDX"w, FPTR_SLOT_IDX);
> vm.defRTConst("ATTR_CONFIGURABLE"w  , ATTR_CONFIGURABLE);
> vm.defRTConst("ATTR_WRITABLE"w      , ATTR_WRITABLE);
> vm.defRTConst("ATTR_ENUMERABLE"w    , ATTR_ENUMERABLE);
> vm.defRTConst("ATTR_DELETED"w       , ATTR_DELETED);
> vm.defRTConst("ATTR_GETSET"w        , ATTR_GETSET);
> vm.defRTConst("ATTR_DEFAULT"w       , ATTR_DEFAULT);
> 
> I'm just wondering if there's a way to template defRTConst so that the
> name of an identifier I'm passing (e.g.: ATTR_DEFAULT) can be captured
> by the template, making it so that I don't also need to pass the name
> as a string.  I expect the answer to be no, but maybe someone with
> more knowledge of D template magic knows better.

I know it's possible to get function (runtime) parameter names using
__traits(), but I'm not sure if that can be done for compile-time
parameters. See: std.traits.ParameterIdentifierTuple.


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