On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 23:29:49 UTC, mahdi wrote:
I read this criticism about D on Reddit and it claims that you
cannot use strings in mixins. Can you please elaborate about
this and the reason behind it?
QUOTE:
Look at strings: they are defined as immutable(char []).
"immutable" as in "you could put it in ROM", ... CTFE can't see
strings correctly (can't be determined at compile time). So
rather than fix the compiler so that strings can be used in
mixins in the way that people expect it to work even if that
means making them something other than immutable(char []), they
decided to start using enums where strings actually go.
Seriously: take the same code and replace 'string "foo"' with
'enum "foo"' and it starts to work!
END QUOTE
This sounds like (please, pardon my language) a shitty load of
bullshit from an incompetent that didn't know what he's talking
about (that's excusable) and didn't try to understand it better
before going on a pointless rant (that's not).
Could you please provide a link to said comment? Maybe some
context would help bring some sanity over this statement.
