On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23-Jul-12 10:30, Philippe Sigaud wrote: >> >> >>> Well you're the resident crazy-stuff-during-compilation guy. >> >> >> Ah! I wish. >> >> I had this wonderful idea of having code be parsed at CT, semantically >> analyzed, transformed into some machine code at CT and... , oh wait. > > > I kind of did it... > regex pattern ---parse---> bytecode ---generate D code---> profit. > > BTW you can avoid machine code, just use D code as glorified backend :) > (and get optimizations for free, yay!)
Hey, that was a joke, about implementing a D compiler in D, to be executed at CT by the real D compiler to basically do its job a second time, only worse :) But yes, your regex work is a great example. I should have a look at the code once more.
