Pop quiz, what does this do?
Simen Kjærås
simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 16:41:49 UTC 2021
On Wednesday, 3 March 2021 at 16:06:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> The FieldNameTuple from std.traits returns a tuple of names of
> all the fields that are present on a type instance.
>
> What about the result on things that can't have fields?
>
> import std.traits;
>
> interface I
> {
> int foo();
> }
>
> pragma(msg, FieldNameTuple!I);
>
> Without looking up the docs, or trying it, what do you think it
> does?
I remember seeing that a couple years back
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/hwrsxypruzeffreqxasa@forum.dlang.org). It seems intentional, but also very, very weird.
Accordion to the PR (https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/2561),
it was for consistency. Consistency with what, however, is
unclear.
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Simen
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