• Chris Piker (12/16) May 04 2014 Is there any way to get a list of the properties and functions
• bearophile (7/10) May 05 2014 In D there are various traits to do that a compile-time. Like:

"Chris Piker" <chris hoopjump.com> writes:

Is there any way to get a list of the properties and functions 
provided by a module or class or generic variable in D at 
runtime?  I've grown quite accustomed to doing the following 
kinds of exploration in Python.

With in the python interperter I can issue:

 a = some_barely_understood_function()
 dir(a)

  ...or for some new module

 import some_new_module
 dir(some_new_module)

The built in function 'dir' is handy as it prints a list of the 
members of anything.  Since there are many odd members in D such 
as "int.min" and "double.max_exp", how can I a list of all 
members of "int", or "double"?  Right now it feels like I just 
have to get luckly while searching online for this information.

Thanks

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Chris Piker:

 Is there any way to get a list of the properties and functions 
 provided by a module or class or generic variable in D at 
 runtime?

In D there are various traits to do that a compile-time. Like:
http://dlang.org/traits.html#allMembers

There are also the Phobos traits:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits.html

Bye,
bearophile