Identifier from string - Re: static foreach considered

[Nick Treleaven]

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 21:32:52 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 06/08/2015 10:16 PM, Idan Arye wrote:
>> It would be nice together with this feature to be able to mixin
>> identifiers:
>>
>>      static foreach (ident; ["foo", "bar"])
>>      {
>>          auto mixin(ident)()
>>          {
>>              // code for foo/bar
>>          }
>>      }
> +1. Other use cases:
>
> auto mixin(ident) = x;
>
> identifier.list.mixin(ident).foo();
>
> import std.mixin(ident);

Browsing bugzilla, I've discovered Idan's feature was actually 
proposed in 2009, but with different syntax:

int __ident(name)() {...}

This seems better syntax, see:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2698#c3