I'm trying to write a proc that returns the same integer ID, when called with
the same type, from any thread (ID can change on every run). Since, AFAIK, I
cannot hold/store a typedesc, I thought I would use it's name (or, more
precisely, a cstring of it's name). But even just getting the name seems
impossible. Without the name, how can I differentiate the types? Here are few
things I tried:
proc test1*(T: typedesc) = # OK
echo("ok") # OK
test1(int) # OK, because it doesn't even use T!
proc test2*(T: static[typedesc]) = # OK
echo(T.name) # OK
test2(int) # COMPILE ERROR
proc test3*(T: typedesc) = # OK
echo(T.name) # COMPILE ERROR
test3(int) # OK
