On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 23:27:16 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 18:37:40 UTC, JDemler wrote:
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The benefits of this I see are debugging, actually having the
generated files makes it much simpler to see what is going
wrong. Otherwise the utility of this can be achieved with
string mixins.
A simple alternative to this would be a flag to the compiler to
expand mixins and output the new files. This would also be
great for tooling, an IDE could use this and allow you to
expand a mixin in place to see what it looks like. And
currently all the auto complete engines I have seen for D don't
handle mixins very well. Expanding them would make
autocompletion a simpler job.
I think this is a much better idea.
Nic
