>> please give us your own code and preferred solution >> to compile-time formatting string checking. > I am not interested in formatting at all. I wrote about the > general problem to incorporate expectable many DSL's into one big > source base, as D is intended to serve large scale coding.
And what's the solution, for you? Using strings as DSL is somewhat common in D. As for DSL, well, I have a parser generator project here (https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged), and I recently added the capacity to add new rules to a grammar at runtime and modify the resulting parse tree. I also used the existent, but unused macro keyword in D to get source code that can define its own subsequent grammar and parse tree transformations. Oh, and grammars can call one another, so adding a new sublanguage to a parent language is doable (I use this from time to time). I still have weeks fo work on this to have it reach the level I want, but I did not hit any wall up to now. So adding clean-looking DSL can be done in D, I think. > I am sure that your "stab at it" does not show any intent to > approach the general problem. No, indeed :) Since it's a recurring question here, I just showed it could be done. It's also a simple example of what can be done with D meta-programming capacities.
