On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 03:43:20 Inquie via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > So, is it possible to debug string mixins? > > I ran visual D and tried to step in to a function that was > generated by a mixin and it brought an open file dialog box > asking me to load the source code where the function was > located... of course, it wasn't located anywhere except in the > mixin string. > > > This leads to the idea, why can't the compiler simply output the > mixin string to a file then the debugger can load that source > file? > > One of the most frustrating things about D is not having the > ability to debug it's powerful meta programming in any reasonable > way. (bad enough having to resort to using pragma(msg)) > > But we can't even debug the results of those meta programming in > the case of string mixins because there is no way to step in to > them... It seems all the machinery is there, but just a few extra > steps are needed.
Related: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5051 - Jonathan M Davis
