On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 15:34:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
My intent is to have a struct Module, which can be initialized
with a module name; then:
The way I do this is to define the data structures kinda like you
did, but then have a ctfe/template factory function to return it.
struct Module {
string name;
Data[] data;
// etc
}
Module getModule(string name)() {
Module mod;
// populate here using template arg
mod.name = name;
mod.data = [__traits(allMembers, mixin(name))];
// etc
// return the simple struct
return mod;
}
Then you can enum it individually:
enum x = getModule!"std.typecons";
and also runtime initialize it and put in an array:
Module[] allModules;
static this() {
allModules ~= getModule!(__MODULE__);
}
This runtime data, compile time factory pattern I think solves
everything you want without language changes. Is there anything
about it you don't like?
