Time for std.reflection

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/21/12 8:46 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 7/21/12, Andrei Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote:
>> class ModuleInfo {
>> @property:
>>       string name();
>>       ImportInfo[] imports();
>>       DataInfo[] data();
>>       FunctionInfo[] functions();
>>       ClassInfo[] classes();
>>       StructInfo[] structs(); // includes unions
>>       TemplateInfo[] templates();
>>       EnumInfo[] enums();
>>       bool hasStaticCtor(), hasStaticDtor(),
>>         hasSharedCtor(), hasSharedDtor();
>> }
>
> Are class/struct/function/etc templates going to be stored in the
> templates field? Then you'd have to tag each template with a type,
> e.g. "class template" vs "function template" to be able to filter them
> out.

Perhaps we could accommodate parameterized types together with 
non-parameterized types by having e.g. additional properties that are 
null for non-parameterized types.

> Otherwise classes/functions/etc could have an optional
> "TemplateTypeInfo[] typeParams" field so you could filter out
> templated from non-templated types by checking their typeParams field,
> e.g.: auto tempClasses = filter!(a =>  !empty(a.typeParams)
> )(modinfo.classes);
>
> I use a similar structure to what you've defined for my code generator
> and it worked out nicely for me.

That sounds great!

Andrei