On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 13:42:36 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
On 07/08/13 15:12, John Colvin wrote:
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 13:01:32 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
It won't work if one of the types isn't already available
inside the
template - the .stringof will give you the name, but the mixin
will fail;
When would the type not be available?
auto as() { struct An {} return An(); }
template A(T) {}
A!(typeof(as()))
T.stringof inside 'A' will return a name, but there's no way to
map
it back to a type.
The 'A' template can be instantiated from a different module -
the type
won't be available in A if A doesn't import that other module.
The type may be private, then even an import in A (or any
parent scope)
won't help.
artur
Ah ok, I see.
In those cases you're not going to be able to declare a function
that explicitly uses that type anyway, whether handwritten or
generated as above.
