__FUNCTION__

[grauzone]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> Hello Andrei,
>>
>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stdout.formatln("{}", __FUNCTION__);
>>>
>>> I think instead of __FUNCTION__ we'll define a much more comprehensive
>>> static reflection facility.
>>>
>>
>> for the above case I think __FUNCTION__ is as good as it will get. 
>> Define it as a human readable identifier rather than reflection.
>>
>>
> 
> You will have it as a human readable identifier too. The problem with
> __FUNCTION__, __CLASS__ etc. is that the list of ad-hoc names (what
> happened to __STRUCT__, __MODULE__ et al?) can go forever.

For classes and structs, this is already possible: typeof(this).stringof

Now we only need a way to get some kind of compile time object for 
functions and modules (like the type for classes/structs). Then you 
simply can use .stringof on them.

> 
> Andrei