Reply to Jarrett,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM, BCS <a...@pathlink.com> wrote:could this be transitioned to CTFE? you could even have a debug mode that delays till runtime RegEx mather = new CTFERegEx!("some regex"); class CTFERegEx(char[] regex) : RegEx { debug(NoCTFE) static char[] done; else static const char[] done = CTFECompile(regex); public this() { debug(NoCTFE) if(done == null) done = CTFECompile(regex); base(done) } }For what it's worth the Tango regexes actually have a method to output a D function that will implement the regex after it's compiled. So you _could_ precompile the regex into D code and use that. But seriously, man - if something takes 60 seconds to complete at _runtime_, making it CTFE would simply make your computer explode.
For any kind of debug, yeah, that's a problem. OTOH for release, as long as it /does/ compile, who cares? How many real release builds does anyone do a week?
