On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 00:59:03 UTC, Rob T wrote:
There are other corner cases where alias for the inspect
function will fail. For example, when used inside a class or
struct method, a compiler error results stating that the symbol
is not accessible to a non-global function.
It may be that enhancing alias is not the right way to solve
this problem.
As was mentioned, the other method of importing and parsing the
source file won't scale well and are ridiculous overkill for
what should be a simple thing to do.
What I mean is that template alias parameter is intended to be a
pass-by-name thing. But the way it works it capture the symbol
name tied to the type, not symbol name of actual instance. As it
is a template it should be always possible to refer to
variable/field valid in instantiating context via such aliased
name without loosing actual data context. But it will require
considerably more powerful alias definition.
