Object.factory

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

dennis luehring wrote:
>> Note that if you know the class name at compile time, you don't need
>> Object.factory: you can use a mixin statement instead, which works 
>> just as you'd
>> expect and without runtime costs:
>> mixin("MyClass a = new MyClass;");
> 
> and why not just
> 
> MyClass a = new MyClass;
> 
> why is there a need for mixin the code???
> 
> 

If "MyClass" were being stored as a string somewhere, being selected by 
deep versioning or by some other compile-time process (like CTFE), then 
the mixin method becomes rather useful.

const CLAZZ = elaborateCTF() ;
mixin("auto a = new " ~ CLAZZ ~ ";");

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls