Re: Time for std.reflection

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/21/12 8:46 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 7/21/12, Andrei Alexandrescu<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org>  wrote:
class ModuleInfo {
@property:
      string name();
      ImportInfo[] imports();
      DataInfo[] data();
      FunctionInfo[] functions();
      ClassInfo[] classes();
      StructInfo[] structs(); // includes unions
      TemplateInfo[] templates();
      EnumInfo[] enums();
      bool hasStaticCtor(), hasStaticDtor(),
        hasSharedCtor(), hasSharedDtor();
}

Are class/struct/function/etc templates going to be stored in the
templates field? Then you'd have to tag each template with a type,
e.g. "class template" vs "function template" to be able to filter them
out.

Perhaps we could accommodate parameterized types together with 
non-parameterized types by having e.g. additional properties that are 
null for non-parameterized types.

Otherwise classes/functions/etc could have an optional
"TemplateTypeInfo[] typeParams" field so you could filter out
templated from non-templated types by checking their typeParams field,
e.g.: auto tempClasses = filter!(a =>  !empty(a.typeParams)
)(modinfo.classes);

I use a similar structure to what you've defined for my code generator
and it worked out nicely for me.

That sounds great!

Andrei