On 1/13/12 4:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/13/2012 2:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:People will want to pass a variable for op. Would that work?It'll currently fail miserably - it has to be a constant. Otherwise, we have runtime code generation. While not impossible, it is a large increase in scope.
Then probably the operation should be simd!opcode(arguments). If a function is intrinsic it shouldn't have special syntactic rights.
Andrei