On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 17:49:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:35:44PM +0200, Tofu Ninja wrote:
[...]
The use cases I am more interested in are not possible with
make.
Having the ability to pass the arguments from within the
language
itself allows you to define your use cases inline instead of
having
to separately define the use case outside. Something where you
would
have many different points in the code that needed different
input
from what ever executable you were calling. With out ctec you
would
have to maintain a list of every time you needed something
generated
from the outside and add that to your make which is error
prone. I
think it is in these cases where the ctec would be the most
useful
as it would remove a lot of the burden of keeping track of all
the
pregenerated code.
You mean, you want to do something like this?
static inputValues = [
"data1", "data2", "data3"
];
static foreach (val; inputValues) {
import exec("prog", val);
}
I can see why that could be useful.
T
Or something more complex where a template generates its code
based on the output of an executable, so in that case the
template args would be passed into the executable call.
