On 06/17/14 11:30, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 6/16/2014 9:32 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > >> And how would you syntax-highlight a string mixin that's assembled from >> arbitrary string fragments? > > You wouldn't need to, since the text editor sees only normal D code.
That's just because D lacks string interpolation and static-foreach. These two things take meta programming to a whole new level. The difference is similar to the C++- vs D-templates case. Superficially "it's just a neater syntax", but in practice it allows perfectly readable code to be written for cases where traditional (both template- and ctfe- based) meta programs become an almost unmaintainable mess. And the fact that those meta-programs can then be properly syntax- highlighted in an editor is a nice extra. artur (who implemented both features last weekend; it started out as a fun "let's-see-how-D-would-look-if-it-had-this"-project, but after making them work and then converting a few small programs, almost immediately realized that he now does not want to live w/o this functionality)
