Hello Yigal,

On 18/04/2009 21:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

In the syntax

a.b

how would either of a and b be identified at runtime? I mean, you
write the code somewhere and it gets compiled. It's not like you're
reading "a.b" from the console and then call some eval() function
against them.

Andrei

what prevents D from having an eval function?
suppose someone modifies the DMD front-end to compile a string with
the
source code of a function in-memory, than this is processed by
something
based on DDL and what you get is an API call that takes source code in
a
string and returns a function pointer.

Even then it is *still* going to be compile time. Just a compile time running at runtime... Ooohh, my heads's going to start hearing here in a bit.


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