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reply Victor Porton <porton narod.ru> writes:
What is the right way to store in a structure a class (not an 
instance) derived from a given interface(s)?
Feb 19 2019
parent Benjamin Schaaf <ben.schaaf gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 19 February 2019 at 22:04:58 UTC, Victor Porton wrote:
 What is the right way to store in a structure a class (not an 
 instance) derived from a given interface(s)?
What are you trying to do with the "class"? If you just want a static "reference" to it you can use an `alias`: class A {} struct B { alias C = A; } new B.C(); If you want dynamic information on the type you can use TypeInfo: class A {} struct B { TypeInfo i; } B b; b.i = typeid(A); b.i.factory(); Or more simply if you just want to construct instances, just use a delegate: interface I {} class A : I {} struct B { I delegate() factory; } B b; b.factory = () => new A(); b.factory(); You *can't* do something like the following because types need to be validated at compile time: struct A { Class cls; } A a; a.cls b; b.run();
Feb 19 2019