On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 19:04:43 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:16:58 +0000, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Actually metaprogramming is how a lot of magic happens in Java
and .NET.
without on-the-fly code generation that's a mockery.
Metaprogramming in .net is done through T4 templates. This is a
Visual Studio feature, not a language feature.
There are two types of T4 templates:
- text templates - similar to mixins in D, you create a .tt file
and each time you save it, a counterpart source file (even a .d
source file) is created;
- runtime text templates - code is generated and compiled at
runtime on the fly.
That's how most of the Visual Studio code designers and
generators work.
Template language can be C# or VB and T4 templates support
debugging.
