I am reading through the free book on learning D by Ali Çehreli
and I am having difficulties understanding the difference between
compile time execution and run time execution in D language.
What I do understand is that compile time and run time are the
two processes that your code goes through to be executed
natively. Compile time is the first stage. During compile time,
the compiler checks for basic syntax errors such as a missing
semicolon, typos throughout the codebase. Then the run time stage
begins. Other errors are only able to be spotted during run time
such as exceptions, dividing by zero, assert blocks.
In Java and some other languages, during compile time the code
gets executed into Java bytecode. This also happens for C#. I
don't know if there is an equivalent 'intermediate' language for
D that your code gets translated to.
In general, I have a very vague understanding of these concept.s
I don't understand the basics of how compile time and run time
works in D language, it wasn't really explained in the book so
when I see terms like 'compile time' and 'run time' I only have a
very vague idea of what these things mean and how the process
works for D language when compared to other high level languages.
Any help would be appreciated.
