Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Suppose (purely hypothetically) that the .NET assembly system were changed to allow the source for a D/C++ style of source-level template to be embedded into the assembly. Then they'd be able to do D/C++ style source-level template/code-generation. Right?
I assume, actually presume, that would take the better part of a decade.
Now obviously the big problem with that is it would only be usable in the same language it was originally written in.
That actually depends. Done the M$ way, it would. Done properly, it would work in any language. But then, that would mean a rewrite of the entire CLR, wouldn't it?
I suppose that might make reverse-engineering easier [...]
I don't think that's got anything to do with it. Not at least, if they'd really do it below the language/CLR boundary.
