From 59f42c28ef6d0f3d239be8673f1e4df9aef7b84e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ichthyostega <prg@ichthyostega.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:15:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] get type-id string

---
 src/lib/format.hpp | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/format.hpp b/src/lib/format.hpp
index db53affcd..a7856e183 100644
--- a/src/lib/format.hpp
+++ b/src/lib/format.hpp
@@ -81,14 +81,28 @@ namespace util {
       , Symbol prefix=""      ///< prefix to prepend in case conversion is possible
       , Symbol fallback =0   /// < replacement text to show if string conversion fails
       )
-    {
-      if (can_ToString<TY>::value)
-        return string(prefix) + invoke_2string<TY>(val);
-      
-      else
-        return fallback? fallback
-                       : string("«")+typeid(val).name()+"»";
-    }
+  {
+    if (can_ToString<TY>::value)
+      return string(prefix) + invoke_2string<TY>(val);
+    
+    else
+      return fallback? fallback
+                     : tyStr(val);
+  }
+  
+  
+  /** @return a string denoting the type. */
+  template<typename TY>
+  inline string
+  tyStr (const TY* =0)
+  {
+    return string("«")+typeid(TY).name()+"»";
+  }
+  
+  template<typename TY>
+  inline string
+  tyStr (TY const& ref)
+  { return tyStr(&ref); }
   
   
 } // namespace util