• teo (26/26) Dec 29 2009 There was a way to define new types within templates and I think that I
• Phil Deets (22/48) Dec 29 2009 Did you try string mixins? Maybe something like this untested code:
• grauzone (17/47) Dec 29 2009 I don't know for what you're asking, but there's absolutely no need to
• BCS (9/38) Dec 29 2009 what I would do is this:

teo <teo.ubuntu.remove yahoo.com> writes:

There was a way to define new types within templates and I think that I 
have seen that demonstrated here in the newsgroups, but cannot find it 
now. Can someone help me please?

I would like to do something like this:

template MyTemplate(T)
{
  struct T ~ "Struct"  // define FooStruct structure
  {
    int x;
  }
  class T ~ "Class"  // define FooClass class
  {
    void bar(T ~ "Struct" t)
    {
      // ...
    }
  }
}

void main()
{
  mixin MyTemplate!("Foo");
  FooStruct t;
  FooClass f = new FooClass();
  f.bar(t);
}

Hopefully I am not mistaken.

"Phil Deets" <pjdeets2 gmail.com> writes:

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:44:18 -0500, teo <teo.ubuntu.remove yahoo.com>  
wrote:

 There was a way to define new types within templates and I think that I
 have seen that demonstrated here in the newsgroups, but cannot find it
 now. Can someone help me please?

 I would like to do something like this:

 template MyTemplate(T)
 {
   struct T ~ "Struct"  // define FooStruct structure
   {
     int x;
   }
   class T ~ "Class"  // define FooClass class
   {
     void bar(T ~ "Struct" t)
     {
       // ...
     }
   }
 }

 void main()
 {
   mixin MyTemplate!("Foo");
   FooStruct t;
   FooClass f = new FooClass();
   f.bar(t);
 }

 Hopefully I am not mistaken.

Did you try string mixins? Maybe something like this untested code:

template MyTemplate(T)
{
   mixin (CtfeReplace(q{
     struct _T_Struct
     {
       int x;
     }
   }, "_T_", T.stringof));
   mixin (CtfeReplace(q{
     class _T_Class
     {
       void bar(_T_Struct t)
       {
         // ...
       }
     }
   }, "_T_", T.stringof));
}

Sorry if this is a duplicate post. I attempted to cancel my earlier post.

grauzone <none example.net> writes:

teo wrote:
 There was a way to define new types within templates and I think that I 
 have seen that demonstrated here in the newsgroups, but cannot find it 
 now. Can someone help me please?
 
 I would like to do something like this:
 
 template MyTemplate(T)
 {
   struct T ~ "Struct"  // define FooStruct structure
   {
     int x;
   }
   class T ~ "Class"  // define FooClass class
   {
     void bar(T ~ "Struct" t)
     {
       // ...
     }
   }
 }
 
 void main()
 {
   mixin MyTemplate!("Foo");
   FooStruct t;
   FooClass f = new FooClass();
   f.bar(t);
 }
 
 Hopefully I am not mistaken.

I don't know for what you're asking, but there's absolutely no need to 
use string mixins (see Trass3r's reply).

Instead you can just define a type inside the template, and then access 
it by instantiating it:

template MyTemplate(T) {
    struct Struct {
      T x;
    }
}

void main() {
    MyTemplate!(int).Struct t;
    t.x = 123;
}

You can use mixin MyTemplate!(int); to bring "Struct" into the module 
namespace, and you can use e.g. "alias MyTemplate!(int) IntStruct;" to 
save typing.

BCS <none anon.com> writes:

Hello teo,

 There was a way to define new types within templates and I think that
 I have seen that demonstrated here in the newsgroups, but cannot find
 it now. Can someone help me please?
 
 I would like to do something like this:
 
 template MyTemplate(T)
 {
 struct T ~ "Struct"  // define FooStruct structure
 {
 int x;
 }
 class T ~ "Class"  // define FooClass class
 {
 void bar(T ~ "Struct" t)
 {
 // ...
 }
 }
 }
 void main()
 {
 mixin MyTemplate!("Foo");
 FooStruct t;
 FooClass f = new FooClass();
 f.bar(t);
 }
 Hopefully I am not mistaken.
 


what I would do is this:

template MyTemplate(char[] name)
{
    struct S { int x; }
    class C { ... }

    // put the minimum you can in the string mixin.
    mixin ("alias S "~name~"Struc; alias C "~name~"Class;");
}