On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:15:02 -0400, Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 21-10-2011 21:07, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Hi,
Igor Stepanov has created a patch for DMD and Druntime which adds RTTI
information for class and struct members.
Example:
import std.stdio;
class Foo
{
static void PrintHello()
{
writeln("Hello");
}
}
void main()
{
auto info = cast(OffsetTypeInfo_StaticMethod)Foo.classinfo.m_offTi[0];
assert(info.name == "PrintHello");
auto print = cast(void function())info.pointer;
print(); //prints "Hello"
}
Absolutely awesome!
While the inclusion of such functionality into the language remains a
disputed matter, would anyone be interested in an unofficial patch for
this?
Yes, very much. I would recommend setting up a fork on GitHub, and then
adding it to a branch, e.g. 'reflection', if it's not going to be
included in mainline DMD.
Really? A runtime reflection system has been on the review queue for over six
months and I've brought the subject up on the newsgroup. I've received zero
feedback. So while I'm sure everyone want to check RTTI off the D features
list, I've not seen much real interest in it.
