Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:26:11 +0200, Don thusly wrote: > CTFE doesn't mean "string mixins using CTFE". It just means CTFE. (BTW > you can do string mixins with templates only, no CTFE, if you are > completely insane).
CTFE without mixins is rather limited form of metaprogramming. You can basically only initialize some static non-code data, and not much more. String mixins with templates was the only way to go before CTFE became possible -- those were the times!