[mercury-users] Functor argument names in RTTI

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Sep-2001, Michael Day <mikeday at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> It would be handy to be able to access functor argument names through rtti
> when trying to automatically serialise arbitrary types. For example,
> extending get_functor which currently returns a list(type_desc) to return
> a list of pair(maybe(string), type_desc).
> 
> Does the source to source translation that implements field names permit
> this, or is it unlikely to be possible?

The RTTI information that we keep at runtime already stores the field names,
I'm pretty sure (grep for "arg_name" in runtime/mercury_type_info.h).
We just haven't yet gotten around to providing an appropriate
Mercury interface to that info.  

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