TypeInfoEx and Variant: suggestions?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:11:33 -0400, Daniel Keep  
<daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:37:29 -0400, Daniel Keep
>> <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On a side note, I'm working on getting Tango's Layout to understand
>>> Variants and do the "proper" stringification.  Still trying to work out
>>> how to get the changes to compile without having to rebuild Tango...
>>> *grumble*
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>> Have you tried building your test app with your modified Tango file
>> specifically?  That generally works for me:
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>> dmd variantTest.d ~/d/include/d/tango/core/Variant.d
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>> -Steve
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> That works for Variant, but it doesn't seem to work with Layout.  It
> compiles and runs, but it doesn't seem to actually use the code I give  
> it.

I think I ran into this before.  I think it's because Layout is a  
template, and is compiled when it is used, not when the module is  
compiled.  You have to recompile the user of Layout as well (i.e.  
Stdout.d, and probably Print.d).

-Steve