On Sunday, 19 July 2015 at 12:17:04 UTC, Clayton wrote:
Pardon me for trivial question, Am new to D.
In D, you can run regular runtime code at compile time in a lot
of cases. Just write an ordinary function that returns the data
you need, then use it in a static variable initialization.
// example function, notice regular if and variables inside
int calculate(int i) { if(i < 0) return -i; else return i; }
static int value = calculate(5); // this is run at compile time
Ordinary functions will be interpreted if asked for their result
in a context that only can be run at compile time, like a static
variable initialization or inside a static if.
