• JS (22/22) Aug 01 2013 I guess D doesn't support named UDA's directly?
• Dicebot (8/10) Aug 01 2013 struct Name

"JS" <js.mdnq gmail.com> writes:

I guess D doesn't support named UDA's directly?

e.g.,

 (Name = "My Name", Other = .34)

It would be nice to have the ability to have an "attribute" 
hierarchy where looking up attributes on objects could easily be 
done.

e.g.,

 (Name = "s", Other = 2) struct s
{
      (Name = "q", Default_Value = 4) int q = 4;
}

which would form a hierarchy

Attributes[]...[]

Which  [s].Attributes = {"Name" = "s", "Other" = 2} (Key/Value 
pairs)

 [s][q].Attributes = {"Name" = "q", "Other" = 2, "Default_Value" 
= 4 }

(attributes are inherited

Querying at runtime would be a binary search or O(1) if the 
object type is known.

Anyways, Just an idea I had when trying to make attributes more 
useful.

"Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 11:02:00 UTC, JS wrote:
 Anyways, Just an idea I had when trying to make attributes more 
 useful.

struct Name
{
     string data;
}

 Name("hello")
void foo();

I favor this approach much more because of strong typing.