On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2010 04:41:37 spir wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:06:04 -0800 > > > > Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > > > 11. generative programming > > > > Does someone have a pointer to any kind of doc about this? (in D) > > Anything on templates, template mixins, and string mixins. All of them > generate > code. And some people have done some pretty crazy stuff with them > (especially > string mixins). > > - Jonathan M Davis > So is it like template metaprogramming in C++? a small D example would be helpful. There doesn't seem to be anything about it in TDPL. As for CTFE, does this mean I could call 'writeln()' at compile time and have it print a message to stdout while compiling?