On 2015-08-13 01:27, Tofu Ninja wrote:
A simple alternative to this would be a flag to the compiler to expand mixins and output the new files. This would also be great for tooling, an IDE could use this and allow you to expand a mixin in place to see what it looks like. And currently all the auto complete engines I have seen for D don't handle mixins very well. Expanding them would make autocompletion a simpler job.
I agree, this is much better. I remember the old Eclipse plugin, Descent. It had a compile time view which showed how mixins where expanded and how some language features where lowered, i.e. "scope" to try-catch-finally.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
