It would be really awesome if you could play around with making the AST available during compilation so we can alter it using ctfe.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Namespace <rswhi...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Monday, 29 October 2012 at 22:09:02 UTC, bearophile wrote: > >> Namespace: >> >> Not interested, huh? Funny, that I had not expected. >>> >> >> Maybe they appreciate more something that improves the life of regular D >> programmers. There are many possible ways to do that, like trying to design >> features that quite probably will be added to D, or trying library ideas >> that will become part of Phobos, trying new GC features, trying new Phobos >> modules, and so on and on. >> >> Otherwise you risk creating another Delight (http://delight.sourceforge.* >> *net/ <http://delight.sourceforge.net/> ) that no one uses, it's just a >> waste of time for you too. >> >> Bye, >> bearophile >> > > Yes, but I need input. Tell me some ideas and I'll try to implement them. > So you could just test new features in the real world, instead of just > talking about them theoretically. > And it is not 'waste of time'. Me and my fellow students use D as early as > the second Semester for almost all university projects. But as '(pre) > compiler' we use Remus just because we miss some features, such as not-null > references, since the first week. And it's a damn good exercise to > understand, how a compiler works. :) >
