On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:11:44 +0200, scarrow <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey all,
I'd like to embed hashed strings into my code. The C++ version of this
engine
ran an external tool to preprocess the files. In D my strongly pure
function
is only evaluated if I assign it to something like an enum or invoke it
from a
template. So the following generate compile time hashes:
enum blort = Hash("foo");
f(CHash!("foo"));
Annoyingly, however, I can't do the following at compile time:
f(Hash("foo"));
I'm not sure what the point is in distinguishing between these two
cases. If
it is a properly pure function there should be no harm in doing a
compile time
evaluation.
Actually, there might. Pure functions are allowed to depend upon the
immutable global variables, whose values may be calculated at startup
(see static this)
--
Simen
