Re: Retreive method given object, name and arguments

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On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 20:27:51 UTC, Michael Coulombe 
wrote:

import std.stdio;

struct S {
  void foo () { writeln("foo()"); }
  void foo (int n) { writeln("foo(", n, ")"); }
}


auto doit(string methodName, C, Args...) (C c, Args args) {
  static if (is(typeof(mixin("c."~methodName~"(args)")))) {
    mixin("return c."~methodName~"(args);");
  } else {
    throw new Exception("no method '"~methodName~"' in type 
"~C.stringof);
  }
}


void main () {
  S s;
  s.doit!"foo"(42);
  s.doit!"foo"();
  s.doit!"oops"(); // this throws
}


of course, you can replace `static if` with `static assert` to 
turn it into compile-time error.