Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billings...@gmail.com> wrote:The first is a more general statement about trying to generate functions with D's metaprogramming. It is a huge pain in the ass to actually create a function with a given name, because the only way that I know this can be done is with a string mixin. As soon as we venture into that territory, we have to consider things like how to convert a parameter type tuple into a string, and whether or not the .stringof a type will be correctly qualified (I've run into problems with this before, where some code in a library is not able to mix in a string because it doesn't import the same modules that the calling code does, and then you just get undefined identifier errors). For the love of all that is holy, can we PLEASE get something like __ident("blah")? This would be so much easier and would probably drastically reduce my use of string mixins in general.What about this front? Is it out of the realm of possibility to get an identifier-izer?
I want this too, but first let's become able to do things we can't do and then to do things we can do, easier. The __ident thing has been on the table for literally years, I seem to recall I called it new alias("blah").
Andrei
