stringof and mixins when the types aren't available

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 17 June 2013 at 00:27:07 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> The fix is simple: Replace `mixin(T.stringof ~ ".init")` by 
> `return mixin("T.init")`. I am not mocking you here, using 
> .stringof for codegen is amost always a bug, and it is usually 
> possible to rewrite the code in such a way that just 
> template-local names are used.

To expand on that a bit: In the case of default parameters, 
instead of trying to directly generate a string representation 
for them, you would instead design your (possibly complex) string 
mixin logic such that the result string contains appropriate 
instantiations of ParameterDefaultValueTuple to be resolved at 
the point where you actually mix in the string.

David