Am 13.07.2013 01:43, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:35:30PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/12/2013 3:12 PM, Timothee Cour wrote:
I think the OP was refering to something different: ability to call
an arbitrary executable / shell command during compile time of a D
function, whereas optabgen is during compiling dmd itself:
It's still the same idea - using external programs to generate source
code.
This idea isn't new. lex/yacc (or their modern incarnations flex/bison)
come to mind. The usage is a bit clunky, but the essence is the same.
what we want to have is this:
I do understand that. I'm just saying that this can currently (but
awkwardly) be done in the makefile.
At what point does the balance shift from having such an ability
built-in, vs. just using OS-level facilities for combining different
programs? For example, one could pipe source through a program that
performs arbitrary transformations on it, then pipe the result through
the compiler. Or one can write a program that generates arbitrary source
code and pipe that into the compiler.
Presently, such things are easily handled by a modern build system (of
which makefiles are a rather clunky implementation thereof).
T
In most modern build systems you can easily achieve that via plugins.
Does DUB accept plugins?
--
Paulo
