On Monday, 27 December 2021 at 23:04:40 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 27 December 2021 at 21:21:30 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
alias T = MyType!(INTEGER);
What is MyType?
enum code = "writeln(\"instance: \", adder(" ~
T.stringof ~ "(), " ~ U.stringof ~ "()" ~ "));";
And why is this a string mixin instead of a plain simple
function?
prolly need more context....
Sorry the example is a bit contrived but basically I'm generating
a whole bunch of code using string mixins.
The types I'm generating are a template type I've constructed for
R's SEXP, so that my wrapped numeric vector (struct) type is
denoted `RVector!(REALSXP)`. But `alias REALSXP =
SEXPTYPE.REALSXP` where `SEXPTYPE` is an `enum`.
So if I start using `T.stringof` where `T =
RVector!(SEXPTYPE.REALSXP)` to generate code it starts to create
chaos because `T.stringof = "RVector!SEXPTYPE.REALSXP"`, so if
I'm trying to convert or instantiate a type using `T.stringof ~
"(x)"`, I'll get `RVector!SEXPTYPE.REALSXP(x)` which gives an
error, and various types like this can occur many times in a
script. The new template allows me to safely paste the type and
get what I want `RVector!(SEXPTYPE.REALSXP)(x)`.
There are various requirements, sometimes I have to cast or type
convert, so I **need** the type to paste correctly and
explicitly. Which is what the `safe_stringof` template does for
my baby example - the same methodology will work just as well for
my `RVector` code.
