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reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
Are these methods going to be implemented any time soon?  I just
stumbled across these are practically jumped for joy at what they'd
allow me to do.  I mean, they return an array of these:

 abstract class MemberInfo
 {
     string name();
 }

 class MemberInfo_field : MemberInfo
 {
     this(string name, TypeInfo ti, size_t offset);

     override string name();
     TypeInfo typeInfo();
     size_t offset();
 }

 class MemberInfo_function : MemberInfo
 {
     enum
     {
         Virtual = 1,
         Member  = 2,
         Static  = 4,
     }

     this(string name, TypeInfo ti, void* fp, uint flags);

     override string name();
     TypeInfo typeInfo();
     void* fp();
     uint flags();
 }
I could do full runtime (de)serialisation with these. Hell, a little runtime codegen magic and I could embed an interpreter that doesn't need shims to be specified at compile-time. Then I discovered that they don't actually do anything. Please tell me this is just taking time and isn't going to be dropped. *puppy dog eyes* -- Daniel
Apr 16 2009
parent Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:
Daniel Keep wrote:
 Are these methods going to be implemented any time soon?  I just
 stumbled across these are practically jumped for joy at what they'd
 allow me to do.  I mean, they return an array of these:
No. They've been there time out of mind and are still not implemented. They would be so miraculously wonderful if they existed, and here I am, writing TypeInfoEx. Granted, it's an order of magnitude easier to work with __traits than with the compiler.
Apr 16 2009