On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 12:58:42 UTC, Swoorup Joshi wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 01:03:54 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
Would it be difficult to implement the following, or something
with similar capabilities, as a patch to dmd?
[...]
Isn't this what string mixin is for
Not reall
On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 01:03:54 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
Would it be difficult to implement the following, or something
with similar capabilities, as a patch to dmd?
[...]
Isn't this what string mixin is for
On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 07:44:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
Doing something like AST macros (which this sounds like) is not
_that_ difficult.
I was thinking doing it at run time... doing it at compile time
indeed isn't that bad (it still looks like the interpreter tree
at that point).
On 2016-12-13 04:38, rikki cattermole wrote:
As CTFE has proven, its do-able but we would be talking at least 6-9
months worth of work.
With no way its going into upstream.
Not to mention we'd need a whole host of AST nodes in druntime.
So really not worth the effort.
Doing something like AST
On 13/12/2016 2:57 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 01:03:54 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
Would it be difficult to implement the following, or something with
similar capabilities, as a patch to dmd?
It would be pretty hard to do with dmd because compiled code isn't
designed fo
On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 01:03:54 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
Would it be difficult to implement the following, or something
with similar capabilities, as a patch to dmd?
It would be pretty hard to do with dmd because compiled code
isn't designed for modification, but it wouldn't be too hard
Would it be difficult to implement the following, or something
with similar capabilities, as a patch to dmd?
Create a compiler that lets one use actual code as templates.
e.g., a text block of a function can be referenced by in the code
using a "dom" to modify that code similar to how we can m
