Mixin virtual functions -- overloads

[Tim M]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:02:09 +1300, Jarrett Billingsley  
<jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Tim M <a at b.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:31:37 +1300, Justin <mrjnewt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You are probably using alias and/or mixin incorrectly. It would be  
>> easier
>> with full source but as a guess are you trying to do something like  
>> this:
>
> What he's doing is right, ostensibly; template mixins have never
> cooperated with overloading.
>
>> module main;
>>
>>
>> class TypeThing(T)
>> {
>>      T data;
>>      this()
>>      {
>>            //
>>      }
>>      void SetValue(T data)
>>      {
>>            this.data = data;
>>      }
>> }
>>
>> class boolThing : TypeThing!(bool)
>> {
>>      this()
>>      {
>>            //
>>      }
>> }
>>
>> void Register(char[] t)()
>> {
>>      mixin("class "~t~"Thing : TypeThing!("~t~")
>>            {
>>                  this()
>>                  {
>>                        //
>>                  }
>>            }");
>> }
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>      Register!("bool");
>>      Register!("char");
>> }
>
> I.. really am not sure what you're trying to do there?  But your idea
> of using string mixins instead of template mixins might be useful
> here.  If only we didn't have to resort to string mixins at every turn
> :P

I dont know what I was trying to do either :). Infact the classes are  
defined in the wrong scope. Can you show what the actuall overload  
template mixin problem is?