On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 16:49:54 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 15:34:56 UTC, Dsciple wrote:
I don't understand what prevents such function (in turn
calling some OS-level C function) from doing its job at
compile time too. Guess it's a very challanging thing to do at
compile-time, or should I open an issue with the std.socket
lib developers?
std.socket simply passes the request on to the operating
system. Enabling parsing IP addresses at compile time would
necessitate duplicating the logic already present in the
operating system libraries, which would not be future-proof at
best, and buggy at worst.
It's not possible to implement by invoking C functions like at
runtime, since that is forbidden during compile-time for a
number of reasons, mainly safety.
I suspected there must have been a very good reason for this not
being possible at compile time and this definitely looks like
one: thanks Vladimir for tracking this discussion and clarifying
it to me!
So I guess this answers all my questions and. as a beginner, I
can also say I learned something in the process: thank you again!
