On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:28:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/22/14, 9:19 AM, MattCoder wrote:
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 01:22:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
...Given D's compilation speed, that can be achieved as a
dialect
without much aggravation by using a preprocessor.
In fact I considered writing such a preprocessor as a running
example...
Please someone could show a little example of the quote above?
I
mean it would act like C preprocessor or in D it has another
meaning?
As simple as it gets. The program would translate files with
extension ".wsd" into files with extension ".d" and run dmd (or
rdmd) transparently. Appropriate handling of file timestamps
etc. would complete a nice utility. You'd use it like
wsd myscript.wsd
which under the hood would create (if necessary) myscript.d and
then exec rdmd on it.
Andrei
After far too many hours on a plane today, I ended up building
this[1]. This is very much a proof of concept, and not production
ready in the slightest.
I should point out that the extensibility and maintainability of
this is roughly equivalent to that of a potato, but it serves its
purpose decently well.
[1] https://github.com/ColdenCullen/wsd
