Re: How to compile and link simple application?

[Julian via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 19:29:33 UTC, 4544fa8d wrote:

It's really not possible to call functions in modules like in any other languages? :S

What some other languages do is collect all of those calls into an
implicit function that's called before main(). What D does is run
that code at compile-time. Silly example:

  import std.stdio;

  T twice(T)(T n) { return 2 * n; }

  auto x = twice(5);

  void main() {
      writeln(x);
  }

Take a look at the compiled result: https://godbolt.org/z/8vLsv9

There's a twice() that's compiled in, but if you look at x it's
already the result of a call to twice():

  int example.x:
          .long   10

and the (unoptimized) main just fetches that number to print.