On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 15:52:02 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:36:31 +0200, eles wrote:
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 15:34:01 UTC, eles wrote:
Object.factory(__MODULE__ ~ ".Human");
I revive this wrt to the 2.063 release, where the __MODULE__ was
added.
The question that I have now is rather philosophical:
The __MODULE__ is described as a "special identifier" that is
"useful in debugging code" (see the 2.063 changelog, by the way,
a masterpiece of changelogs, congratulations for that).
So... is that OK, philosophically, to use "debug" identifiers to
write something that is more like "templated" code? (the original
question was about the automatically providing the module's name
in the Object.factory() method). Unlike __LINE__, __MODULE__ is
somewhere between the lines.
Yes, now it works like that:
Object.factory(__MODULE__ ~ ".Human");
But is that the recommended way to do it? Should we still aim for:
Object.factory(".Human"); //if module name is not specified, the
current module is assumed
?
