Issue 1838 - reification for fields with macro class, field name reification. - haxe

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[Google Issue #1838 : https://code.google.com/p/haxe/issues/detail?id=1838]
by lucadelt...@googlemail.com, at 21/05/2013, 23:44:15
macro class { } currently works fine in all cases of reification that I have tested... except for field name reification.

var t = macro :Int;
var i = "y";
var e = macro $i + 10;
var fields = (macro class { function x($i:$t):$t return $e; }).fields;

all works well, but we can't do:

(macro class { function $i(); }).fields

as the $i will give a compiler error.

Suggest permitting $ prefix for identifiers in general so that we can get reificatino for fields properly.

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[comment from si...@haxe.org, published at 21/05/2013, 23:47:47]
Do you think we could allow dollar idents for field names in the parser and fail during typing? Without this "macro class" reification seems largely useless.

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[comment from si...@haxe.org, published at 23/05/2013, 10:25:21]