Monday 27 December 2010 @ 17:18:17 Daniel Gibson: > Am 27.12.2010 17:01, schrieb Caligo: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com > > <mailto: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. > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/templates-revisited.html
Firstly, I admit I'm still new in programming so treat me like that but... On my peasant-like brain, if You can't store compilation-time variable, to read it later... from other template, even module with normal language rules but in compile time, it's not *fully* generative programming, is it? You can't make many things without that. As I said, I'm new in programming so maybe that's why, but D was my ideal language (so i could express everything i imagined). But this little thing makes templates only small spice to what I've seen before, instead of big step forward. I understand it might be hard to implement with clear rules of usage, but I abstracted it out. Ps. I want compile-time raytracer downloadable again, please :) Sincerely, Mariusz Gliwiński
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