The Final(ize) Challenge

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> I want this too, but first let's become able to do things we can't do and
>> then to do things we can do, easier. The __ident thing has been on the table
>> for literally years, I seem to recall I called it new alias("blah").
> 
> I'm more worried that this will just slip through the cracks and not
> make it into D2.  Then it'd be implemented in some post-D2 version of
> DMD, and then D3 will be forked, so it'll _kind of_ be part of D2 but
> not _really_ since it wasn't part of the spec when it was 'frozen'..
> we've been here before :P
> 
> It seems like such low-hanging fruit.  So many of my string mixins
> only exist to parameterize the names of things that this would almost
> completely replace them.  It's on the same level as static foreach -
> not essential, but it'd certainly make a lot of metaprogramming
> simpler.

I think you need to operate exclusively with string mixins in Finalize, 
so __ident would be of marginal help there. Also, static foreach is much 
more necessary.

Andrei