On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 03:50:59 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
Its mostly for CTFE, not stuff your general dev will touch even
in D.
Like generating javascript from data models or routes [0].
Summary:
"Helper functions" where by they have one task that does not
change, and can be gained purely from the parameters given
(mostly template args).
"Generator functions" where by they do some task that requires
"helper functions" but cannot be ran at CTFE or generate code
to be ran at runtime.
I started writing a small booklet on this, if you got an email
if you're interested or some way to send you. Please let me
know.
[0]
https://github.com/rikkimax/Cmsed/tree/master/source/base/cmsed/base/internal/generators/js
Thanks, I've sent you an email through github. I use the helper
function pattern a regularly (I think Ali put it in his book) but
I don't think I'm familiar with generators. Looks useful for
implementing some lazy UFCS compute kernels I've been considering.
