So, 6 years later, what is the idiomatic way of doing this? Has
there been any progress on this matter?
As far as I can tell from this thread, all proposed solutions are
imperfect in some way, which is a shame for a language with
"Second to none reflection".
Arredondo.
On Saturday, 9 November 2013 at 09:12:21 UTC, Rob T wrote:
I have a template function called "inspect" that takes two
variables as arguments,
void inspect(T)( string symbol, T value )
{
writeln(symbol, " = ", value);
}
int y = 100;
inspect( y.stringof, y );
writes to console
y = 100
I am wondering if there's a way to pass only the variable and
have the inspect function determine the variable's symbol name
as passed rather than have to pass both the name and value
separately?
void inspect(T)( T value )
{
writeln( ? , " = ", value);
}
I've tried a template with alias parameter
void inspect(alias value)()
{
writeln( value.stringof , " = ", value);
}
It works except when passing a variable contained inside a
struct or class due to a missing "this" during evaluation, I'm
also worried about template bloat.
I figure mixins may help, but not if it's same or less
convenient to use as the double entry method.
Any suggestions, or is it just impossible or not worth trying?
--rt
