Re: alias to a property as an argument to a mixin template

[monarch_dodra]

On Sunday, 23 September 2012 at 21:44:20 UTC, comco wrote:
[SNIP]
Now we can implement our rotate in terms of reassign:
   void rotate(node* u) {
       auto v = u.right;
       reassign(u.right, v.left, u);
   }
This works and is general enough, but notice the duplication 
of u.right. I don't like it - this may become an arbitrary 
large expression.

[SNIP]

   void rotate(node* u) {
       node* v;
       mixin ReassignMixin!(v, u.right, v.left, u);
       reassign();
   }

See how the client code looks nicer when the template 
arguments are not wrapped as strings.

I just don't see neither the problem, nor how the proposed 
solution is any better.

All I see is a clean, closed and finished rotate at first, and 
then... something else...

Relate:
BR 8718 I just filed:
Template mixin + string mixin name collision
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8718