On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 18:23:25 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 18:07:32 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
I went with the mixin approach, which seems to work fine except
that I couldn't declare the mixin inside a function, so the
definition is pretty far away from use
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 18:07:32 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
Since I reuse the field a few times I tried to alias the result:
`alias theProp = __traits(child, s, field);`
yeah won't work since the alias again drops the `this`, this is
the same thing as the template param.
You could make
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 17:44:47 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 17:19:32 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
Gotcha, thanks. I tried using `S.field` before and that didn't
work, `__traits(child)` was the key.
Since I reuse the field a few times I tried to alias the res
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 17:19:32 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
It seems like maybe I'd have to pass s as a runtime parameter
to get it to work?
yes, you do. the alias param passes the abstract idea of the
variable instead of the variable:
void main(){
S s;
func!(s.a)();
See, you
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 17:29:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:19:32PM +, Ben Jones via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
I'm trying to use a property member of a struct as a template
alias parameter and I don't really understand how to fix the
error message I'm seeing
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:21:49PM +, Ben Jones via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[...]
> I considered just having a `ref int` parameter, but I didn't think
> that would work if I was actually calling a property function, rather
> than just modifying a struct member.
[...]
Why not pass the entir
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:19:32PM +, Ben Jones via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> I'm trying to use a property member of a struct as a template alias
> parameter and I don't really understand how to fix the error message
> I'm seeing (I also tried the simpler case of a plain struct member,
> an
On Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 17:19:32 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
I considered just having a `ref int` parameter, but I didn't
think that would work if I was actually calling a property
function, rather than just modifying a struct member.
I also tried to use a template mixin, but couldn't g
I'm trying to use a property member of a struct as a template
alias parameter and I don't really understand how to fix the
error message I'm seeing (I also tried the simpler case of a
plain struct member, and that didn't work either). Is what I'm
trying to do possible? It seems like maybe I'd