On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:07:24 -0700, alex <[email protected]> wrote:
I forgot to specify the topic I'd like to work on:
To implement CTFE of D code under .Net - whereas the D code should
become compiled into CIL (Common language runtime Intermediate Language,
an assembler-like language), so one could execute the 'final' program
directly in a .Net environment.
I know this goal can never be reached within one summer of code - and
it's also rather experimental / an entire compiler back-end that has to
be implemented (The front-end is mostly there already ;-)) + perhaps
needs a bunch of people for such a huge thing, but well..why not?
I just want to throw some caution into the wind here. Many people have
tried emitting CIL from D source, and have had varying levels of success.
Ranges in particular seems to a pain point as the CIL has no way to
express that concept natively. I am not saying this isn't a good idea, as
it's the only realistic way to do CTFE in the .NET world, just something
to be careful when approaching.
That said, I come from the C#/.NET world and would love to help make this
happen.
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