Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:09:28 +0400, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yes, there are many things that opDotExp can do that opDot or alias this  
> (which is essentially opDot without any code).  Hooking every function  
> call on a type seems to be one of the two killer use cases of this  
> feature (the other being defining a large range of functions from which  
> only a small number need to exist).  But call forwarding seems not to be  
> one of them.  There are better ways to simply forward a call (such as in  
> your variant example).
>
> I'm pretty convinced that this is a useful feature, I still have qualms  
> about how it's really easy to define a runtime black hole where the  
> compiler happily compiles empty functions that do nothing instead of  
> complaining about calling a function that does not exist.
>
> Also, I don't think the requirement for this feature needs to be for the  
> arguments to be templated, it should be sufficient to have a single  
> string template argument.  This way, you can overload opDotExp functions  
> via argument lists.
>

That way you loose type safety of arguments.

> And BTW, the answer to your question above I think:
>
> mixin("return inner."~name~"(args)");
>
> Andrei demonstrated this usage in his Pascalize example.
>
> -Steve

Oh, right, I saw his post but forgot that solution. Thanks you!