On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 09:17:45 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
This one thing I'm loosing sleep over - what precisely is so good in CTFE code generation in _practical_ context (DSL that is quite stable, not just tiny helpers)?
I've asked this same question before and my answer is mostly the same as dicebot: I think reflection is the important bit. Of course, even there it is sometimes useful to break it into two steps (one just prints the data out kinda like dmd -X then a regular program reads it and generates the code), but I find it really useful to read D code and generate stuff based on that.
By the end of day it's just about having to write a trivial line in your favorite build system (NOT make)
it is actually pretty trivial in make too...
