How to get compatible symbol names and runtime typeid names for templated classes?

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 14:38:53 UTC, Arafel wrote:
> Actually, it would be cool to do it through an interface, 
> although I don't think an interface's static constructors are 
> invoked by the implementing classes... it would be cool, though.

yeah interfaces can't have constructors.

> I'd try it myself, but I wouldn't know where to start. Compiler 
> internals are way beyond my comfort zone...

Believe it or not, you don't need to touch the compiler. Open 
your druntime's object.d and search for `RTInfo`

http://druntime.dpldocs.info/object.RTInfo.html

That is instantiated for every user defined type in the program 
and you have the compile time info..... all druntime uses it for 
is a tiny bit of GC info and even then only sometimes.

But it could do so so so much more. Including doing custom 
factories and runtime reflection buildups!