Function signature as string

John Chapman johnch_atms at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 29 21:36:40 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 21:31:57 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:11:06 +0000, John Chapman wrote:
>> Is there any way to get a string representing a function's 
>> exact signature as declared in the source? I can generate it 
>> myself using reflection but it might not be 100% verbatim so 
>> wanted to know if there's anything built in?
>> 
>>    foreach (m; __traits(allMembers, T)) {
>>      alias member = __traits(getMember, T, m);
>>      string signature = // Call some function to get "member"'s
>> signature as a string
>>    }
>
> typeof(&func).stringof should do it:
>
>     void bar(string s, ref Foo!int i) {}
>     void main()
>     {
>         writeln(typeof(&bar).stringof);
>     }
>
> prints: void function(string s, ref Foo!int i)

That does the trick - thanks.


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