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reply aliak <something something.com> writes:
I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so decided 
to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements chucked on.

Two of the highlights are the non-eponymous "member" and "iz" 
templates, which are shown below with some code. The library also 
includes the "from" template because I tend to use that 
everywhere.

Docs: https://aliak00.github.io/bolts/bolts.html
Github: https://github.com/aliak00/bolts
Package: https://code.dlang.org/packages/bolts

Current issues include:

1) that I'm not completely sure about the behaviour of the 
copy-constructor traits - I've decided to pretend post blots 
don't exist and marked the library as requiring dmd frontend 
2.086 and above.

2) It's an ongoing battle with D to normalize parameters because 
traits return tuples, or string, or tuples of strings, or alias 
tuples, etc. And some traits take symbols, while others take 
strings, etc. One of the goals is to make this library a little 
more consistent and try and keep it that way. I will break things 
to make things consistent (is my intention).

3) Naming - e.g. why are some things in std.meta capitalized 
(i.e. Filter) and others camel-cased with a static prefix - i.e. 
staticMap? What would be the consistent thing to do? I currently 
have a staticZip in there, should it just be Zip?

Some sample code:

unittest {
     import bolts;

     int i;
     class C { void f0() {} int f1(int) { return 0; } }
     static struct S { void f0() {} int f1(int) { return 0; } 
 property void set(int) {} }

     pragma(msg, from.std.allSatisfy!(iz!int.of, 3, 4, int, i)); 
// true
     pragma(msg, from.std.Filter!(isNullable, int*, C, S)); // 
(int*, C)

     // Member functions
     pragma(msg, memberFunctionsOf!S.asStrings); // tuple("f0", 
"f1")
     pragma(msg, memberFunctionsOf!C.asAliases); // tuple(f0, f1, 
toString, toHash, opCmp, opEquals, factory)

     // member template
     pragma(msg, member!(S, "f0").exists); // true
     pragma(msg, member!(S, "f0").protection); // public
     pragma(msg, member!(S, "f0").isProperty); // false
     pragma(msg, member!(S, "set").propertySemantics); // 
PropertySemantics.w

     // iz template
     static struct OldS {
         this(this) {}
     }
     static struct NewS {
         this(ref NewS s) {}
     }
     pragma(msg, iz!S.triviallyCopyConstructable); // yes
     pragma(msg, iz!OldS.triviallyCopyConstructable); // no 
because post-blit
     pragma(msg, iz!OldS.copyConstructable); // no because post 
blit

     pragma(msg, iz!NewS.copyConstructable); // yes
     pragma(msg, iz!NewS.nonTriviallyCopyConstructable); // yes

     // meta fun with packs and zip
     {
         alias a = AliasPack!(1, 2, 3);
         alias b = AliasPack!(4, 5, 6);
         alias c = AliasPack!(7, 8, 9);

         alias d = staticZip!(a, b, c);

         static assert(d.length == 3);

         static assert(d.Unpack[0].equals!(1, 4, 7));
         static assert(d.Unpack[1].equals!(2, 5, 8));
         static assert(d.Unpack[2].equals!(3, 6, 9));

         static assert(AliasPack!(d.UnpackDeep).equals!(1, 4, 7, 
2, 5, 8, 3, 6, 9));
     }
}

Cheers,
- Ali
Jul 15 2019
next sibling parent reply Atila Neves <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so decided 
 to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements chucked on.

 [...]
Nice! I'm working on something similar but with a different goal.
Jul 15 2019
parent reply Aliak <something something.com> writes:
On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 21:20:16 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so 
 decided to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements chucked 
 on.

 [...]
Nice! I'm working on something similar but with a different goal.
Thanks! How’s the thing similar and what’s the goal (if you don’t mind me asking)?
Jul 15 2019
parent reply Atila Neves <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 00:10:19 UTC, Aliak wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 21:20:16 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so 
 decided to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements 
 chucked on.

 [...]
Nice! I'm working on something similar but with a different goal.
Thanks! How’s the thing similar and what’s the goal (if you don’t mind me asking)?
Similar: One-stop shop for reflection unifying the disparate APIs. Goal: allow "regular" code for reflection purposes by (also) returning everything as strings.
Jul 16 2019
parent reply John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 18:18:50 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 00:10:19 UTC, Aliak wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 21:20:16 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so 
 decided to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements 
 chucked on.

 [...]
Nice! I'm working on something similar but with a different goal.
Thanks! How’s the thing similar and what’s the goal (if you don’t mind me asking)?
Similar: One-stop shop for reflection unifying the disparate APIs. Goal: allow "regular" code for reflection purposes by (also) returning everything as strings.
Is this related to the talk Andrei gave at a recent dconf?
Jul 16 2019
parent Atila Neves <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 20:18:30 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
 On Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 18:18:50 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 00:10:19 UTC, Aliak wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 21:20:16 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 [...]
Nice! I'm working on something similar but with a different goal.
Thanks! How’s the thing similar and what’s the goal (if you don’t mind me asking)?
Similar: One-stop shop for reflection unifying the disparate APIs. Goal: allow "regular" code for reflection purposes by (also) returning everything as strings.
Is this related to the talk Andrei gave at a recent dconf?
Yep!
Jul 23 2019
prev sibling parent reply victoroak <anyone any.com> writes:
On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so decided 
 to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements chucked on.

 [...]
Looks nice. Though, I see it has some problems that stuck me before. The traits isFunctionOver and isUnaryOver can't handle lambdas that receive arguments by ref like: struct S {} static assert(isFunctionOver!((ref s) => s, S)); I wish ref was part of the type in D, so we could pass ref S as template parameters. I could pass as string but it's error prone and not really elegant.
Jul 17 2019
parent aliak <something something.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 17 July 2019 at 16:29:34 UTC, victoroak wrote:
 On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 11:13:10 UTC, aliak wrote:
 I've been using a set of meta tools for a while now, so 
 decided to release it as 1.0.0 with a few enhancements chucked 
 on.

 [...]
Looks nice. Though, I see it has some problems that stuck me before. The traits isFunctionOver and isUnaryOver can't handle lambdas that receive arguments by ref like: struct S {} static assert(isFunctionOver!((ref s) => s, S)); I wish ref was part of the type in D, so we could pass ref S as template parameters. I could pass as string but it's error prone and not really elegant.
Ooh! Thanks! Fixed and released v1.0.1
Jul 17 2019