It has to be in a single function. Suppose you have a variety of modules each of which has a variety of types. And you need to compose a compile-time string which involves all those types and you need to mix that string in at some point. You can't do that.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-11-27 12:28, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: > >> Basically the most important thing I miss is mutable compile-time >> variables. That's it. Everything else can be worked around. >> > > This compiles just fine and prints "10" at compile time: > > int foo () > { > int i = 0; > for (; i < 10; i++) {} > return i; > } > > enum i = foo(); > pragma(msg, i); > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg > -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
