On Friday, 28 March 2014 at 13:28:00 UTC, Matt wrote:
I haven't tried with deeper derived trees, but this seems to
suggest that the .stringof property provides the class name,
WITHOUT the full qualification.
Those can't be really compared.
.stringof provides string representation of anything at
compile-time. For class symbols it will be unqualified name of a
symbol. Important thing is that stringifications happens only
during compile-time and ignores polymorphism.
.classinfo name is name for actual class instance referenced from
the variable it was applied to. It happens to be fully qualified
but key difference here is that it uses RTTI (run-time type
information) to access "real" type of polymorphic entity.
When working with classes you in most cases want the latter.
