On 12/11/2014 12:05 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:17:11 -0800
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/10/2014 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Yeah, the compiler cannot instantiate the template without access to the
full body. It *could*, though, if we were to store template body IR in
object files, perhaps under specially-dedicated object file sections. It
wouldn't prevent reverse-engineering (which is moot anyway when
templates are involved), but it *would* work as an "opaque" library
interface file.
Storing it as body IR accomplishes nothing practical over storing it as source
file, i.e. .di files.
except that there's no need to parse source code over and over again,
which is good for other tools (like completion suggesting, intelligent
code browsing and so on).
Yeah, you just need to write another parser for the binary format, rather than
reuse a canned D parser. :-)
