"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:eiolhg$21va$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> This looks to me like a good way to do reflection.  Imagine that each variable had a property called "members" which returned the tuple of all of the members.  Then dumping all of the members of a struct would be as simple as:
>
>   foreach(member; this.members)
>     writefln(member);
>
> Of course, if tuples were extended to include a "name" field, which was the name that was used to access the field, then we'd have everything:
>
>   foreach(member; this.members)
>     writefln(member.name," ",member);
>
> Of course, if we can do this, then we can do almost everything needed for reflection (especially if we are able to take the address of one element of a tuple, and that works out being the pointer to the member in the struct).
>
> Tuples aren't there yet, but they're close.

Wooooo!  That's so tantalizing.