Is it possible to get types or aliases of all constructors of a class in D2?

Max Samukha wrote:
> Is it possible to get types or aliases of all constructors of a class
> in D2?

No.

__traits has some random functionality in this regard. It has a command getVirtualFunctions which only returns virtual overloads. By "virtual", we mean "appears in vtbl". So any non-private, non-static overload will show up.

Constructors do not appear in any object vtbl. It would be kind of odd if they did.

There's a patch to add getOverloads to __traits. It would do what you want. But I doubt it works on DMD >2.020.

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:46:08 -0400, Christopher Wright <dhasenan@gmail.com> wrote:

>Max Samukha wrote:
>> Is it possible to get types or aliases of all constructors of a class in D2?
>
>No.
>
>__traits has some random functionality in this regard. It has a command getVirtualFunctions which only returns virtual overloads. By "virtual", we mean "appears in vtbl". So any non-private, non-static overload will show up.

Yeah, I know about limitations of __traits. And I don't understand why virtual functions are special-cased. If it is a temporary hack then I don't understand why it is in the specification.

>
>Constructors do not appear in any object vtbl. It would be kind of odd if they did.
>
>There's a patch to add getOverloads to __traits. It would do what you want. But I doubt it works on DMD >2.020.

That is very bad. I hoped for some clever workaround. Really don't want to rely on a patched compiler. Probably, will have to wait another couple of years.