On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:29:21 -0400, Don <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
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A bit of history: A macro system was planned for D2, and 'macro' was
made a reserved word. But in discussions at the end of the first D
conference, I demonstrated that the combination of CTFE + string mixins,
even in D1, was dramatically more powerful than the proposed macros. It
became clear that we didn't have a macro design that was anywhere near
powerful enough, and macros were postponed to D3. We don't know how they
should work.
By all means make a proposal.
About the only thing I find lacking today is the ability to do zero weight
expression templates. I think fleshing out the alias keyword might do the
trick (i.e. alias tuples + alias function parameters) but I haven't though
it all through.
