On Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 20:22:56 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
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.
Ranges.. in .Net there's something beautiful called List, which imho could somehow be used for wrapping e.g. array slices. I mean, even if it's a workaround it's still considering the functionality
That said, I come from the C#/.NET world and would love to help make this happen.
Yeah, would love that, too. But then there's also a question of effort vs. gain - is another "compiler" really needed? Is it worth the 2 years of CTFE implementation brainfuck? Hmm.
