Inadequacies of __traits

[Kirk McDonald]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Kirk,
> 
>> I started writing this as a newsgroup post, but decided I'd rather
>> make it a blog post:
>>
>> http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com/2007/07/inadequacies-of-traits.html
>>
>> __traits is a worthy addition to D, but it needs a couple more
>> features to be truly useful.
>>
> 
> I'd post this as a comment but, I don't have a Google account.
> off the cuff
> 
> ctor might be usable like this:
> 
> (cast(Foo)(new byte[Foo.sizeOfObject]).ptr)._ctor(100)
> 
> 

The primary issue I have with with _ctor is that you cannot use it to 
get the signatures of all of the class's constructors (just of the 
lexically first constructor). My second concern is that the 
isFooFunction traits don't report what kind of function it is correctly.

-- 
Kirk McDonald
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