Is there a way to, programatically (trait), lookup the source file and position of a user defined type either dynamically or, even better, statically?

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 20:58:41 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> Is there a way to, programatically (trait), lookup the source file and position of a user defined type either dynamically or, even better, statically?

I don't know about the source file, per se, but std.traits has the fullQualifiedName!() template, which you could go on to parse for the package and module of a type. Or just use the packageName and moduleName templates instead.

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 20:58:41 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> Is there a way to, programatically (trait), lookup the source file and position of a user defined type either dynamically or, even better, statically?

I don't believe this is possible. Perhaps you would be able to
generate the .json file and use that at runtime, but I don't know
if even that will handle situations like using mixins.

> I don't believe this is possible. Perhaps you would be able to

How about adding

__traits(sourceFile, T)
__traits(sourceLine, T)
__traits(sourceColumn, T)

to DMD?

T of course must be a user-defined type.