Re: Getting the source text of an expression

2020-12-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 21:40:09 UTC, Dave P. wrote: Very cool! Where can I read about what an alias as a template parameter does? https://dlang.org/spec/template.html#aliasparameters https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial

Re: Getting the source text of an expression

2020-12-17 Thread Dave P. via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 21:24:40 UTC, FreeSlave wrote: On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 19:45:38 UTC, Dave P. wrote: [...] Something like that? import std.stdio; void print_int(alias n)() { writeln(n.stringof~"=", n); } void main() { int x = 42; print_int!(x);

Re: Getting the source text of an expression

2020-12-17 Thread mw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 19:45:38 UTC, Dave P. wrote: In C, you can use a macro to get the source text of an expression as a string. For example #include #define PRINT_INT(x) printf(#x " = %d\n", x) int main(){ // prints "3 = 3" PRINT_INT(3); int x = 4; // prints "x =

Re: Getting the source text of an expression

2020-12-17 Thread FreeSlave via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 19:45:38 UTC, Dave P. wrote: In C, you can use a macro to get the source text of an expression as a string. For example #include #define PRINT_INT(x) printf(#x " = %d\n", x) int main(){ // prints "3 = 3" PRINT_INT(3); int x = 4; // prints "x =

Getting the source text of an expression

2020-12-17 Thread Dave P. via Digitalmars-d-learn
In C, you can use a macro to get the source text of an expression as a string. For example #include #define PRINT_INT(x) printf(#x " = %d\n", x) int main(){ // prints "3 = 3" PRINT_INT(3); int x = 4; // prints "x = 4" PRINT_INT(x); #define FOO 5 // prints "FOO = 5"