• Daniel919 (29/29) Sep 03 2006 Hi,
• Jarrett Billingsley (8/14) Sep 03 2006 The problem with this is that variadic functions are evaluated at runtim...

Daniel919 <Daniel919 web.de> writes:

Hi,
just had some thoughts about casting and types.

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import std.string;
import std.stdio;

void giveparam(int a) {
    writefln("takeparam " ~ format(a));
}

void variadic( ... ) {
    if(_arguments[0] == typeid(int))
    giveparam(* cast(int *) _argptr);
    //else if(_arguments[0] == typeid(double))
    //... and so on
}
/*
given......................: _arguments[0]      == typeid(int)
if this would be possible..: ???(_arguments[0]) == int;

I could write giveparam like this:
giveparam(* cast(???(_arguments[0]) *) _argptr);

and would not be forced to do if-checking for all types
*/

void main() {
    variadic(1);
}
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Is there a way to do this ? If not, could something like this be integrated
to D ?


Thanks for your replies in advance.
Daniel

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Daniel919" <Daniel919 web.de> wrote in message 
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 Hi,
 just had some thoughts about casting and types.

 ...

 Is there a way to do this ? If not, could something like this be 
 integrated
 to D ?

The problem with this is that variadic functions are evaluated at runtime. 
What you want to do is cast the _argptr to a type, something which has to be 
determined at compile-time.  The only way to do runtime typing is using the 
TypeInfo classes, which is what typeid is for.

The solution to this would be templates that take variadic arguments, 
something that D can't do yet.