identof || toIdent - feature suggestion / question

[Sean Kelly]

Tom S wrote:
> Would it be hard to add a construct to D that would convert a 
> compile-time string to an identifier ?

This would certainly help with porting C libraries.  It may also be 
useful for some code generation tools, though could result in some ugly 
code as well.  It's for this last reason that I'm hesitant to endorse 
it, even though I think it could be very handy in some cases.


Sean