string scopeName() { return q{__traits(identifier, __traits(parent, {}))}; }void main() { writeln(mixin(scopeName())); }That should be quite usable, except if the user forgets the mixin() part - unfortunately that potential bug seems to be statically undetectable.
Thanks, for comming up with this clever solution, it's the best one so far, and I will likely be using it.
The real problem of course is that there is no simple or obvious solution to what is a very basic requirment - to inspect information about a calling function, and/or execute it recursively without having to re-specify the function explicitly. Don't get me wrong, I am very much impressed with D, but the reflection component in D should be made a real part of the language, and really ought to be made more generalized (elegant).
It is interesting that both classes and structs are able to refer to themselves through "this", so that's a hint that there may be some more use to the idea of self-referencing elsewhere. For example, the ctors and dtors refer back to "this", hinting that functions should be able to do the same thing for recursive calls.
--rt
