Re: reference to 'self' inside a function

[Rob T]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 19:57:05 UTC, Ben Davis wrote:
Wild stab in the dark, but would something like this work:
void myfunction() {
        int dummy;
        auto self = __traits(parent, dummy);
}

though it would be better if something like __traits(enclosing) 
were supported.



This hack will generate the enclosing function name

void function x()
{
  int dummy;
  auto funcname = __traits( identifier, __traits( parent, dummy ) 
);
  writefln( funcname );
}

Obviously the above solution is not reasonable, esp for a 
language that attempts to provide good reflection abilities.

What would work considerably better is something ike this

void function x()
{
   writeln(self.symbolname);
}