Re: D thinks it is OK to mess around with TypeInfo

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 05/03/16 10:35 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:

For example

struct A{}
@safe void main(){
     import std.stdio;
     A a, b;
     auto y = typeid(a);
     y.name = "Nope, I'm not A";
     auto x = typeid(b);
     writeln(x);
}

Make changes to TypeInfo will affect all the future typeid() results!
And D is OK with that?

IMO, TypeInfo returned by typeid() should be immutable.

Yeah TypeInfo and friends needs a lot of work done to it.
But that means modifying the compiler + druntime.