On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 18:33:19 UTC, JS wrote:
The code below does this, but at a cost of verbosity.
I don't see what the difference is in functionality - it looks to me that you just reimplemented what the compiler does automatically with typeid.
The way typeid(obj) works is similar to a virtual function call internally, indeed, Class.vtbl[0] is a pointer to its TypeInfo instance.
But anyway, then the typeinfo contains functions for the class name and size, pretty similar to what you just did.
What does your implementation give you that typeid() doesn't?
