Don, el 2 de noviembre a las 11:14 me escribiste: > Jason House wrote: > >Don Wrote: > > > >>Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >>>Justin Johansson, el 30 de octubre a las 08:42 me escribiste: > >>>>>Actually, I think I like that better than 'traits'. > >>>>> > >>>>>-Lars > >>>>I'm in agreement with whoever suggested 'meta' or just about anything > >>>>else except 'traits'. > >>>>'meta', whilst perhaps an overloaded keyword, is still much more > >>>>user-friendly. Whenever > >>>>I see 'traits' I get the feeling I need a Ph.D. to understand what it's > >>>>about. For some reason, > >>>>I don't know why, 'meta' has an aire of karma about it. > >>>"compiler"? That could open the door to other types of access to compiler > >>>internals, AST, etc. > >>Yup. I think the 'magic namespace' approach is a simple, clean > >>way to incorporate reflection. It could be like Object and > >>TypeInfo, implicitly available in every module and tightly > >>coupled to the compiler, but can be viewed by the user as if it > >>were just a module. It'd be particularly interesting if some of > >>the functions _were_ actually implemented in library code, when > >>possible. > > > >What about going one step further? You could require an import statement to > >use traits. For example, import traits=std.traits could reproduce your > >earlier suggestion, but gives added flexibility to the programmer. It also > >eliminates a keyword. > > It's too fundamental for that. You can't use template constraints > without it. > BTW, 'scope' is another possible magic namespace. > > scope.compiles(XXX) -- true if XXX compiles in the current scope. > > More generally, scope.YYY() would provide metaprogramming > information about the property YYY of the current scope.
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