Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> Yes. The amount of confusion in this thread is staggering.
> 
> I think I have misunderstood about the whole thread then. If the string isn't determined at run time, then this thing isn't useful for my purposes, and it's not close to the object-C as I was talking about, and it's not similar to __getattr__ of Python, etc.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

In the syntax

a.b

how would either of a and b be identified at runtime? I mean, you write 
the code somewhere and it gets compiled. It's not like you're reading 
"a.b" from the console and then call some eval() function against them.


Andrei