On 13-Aug-2015 02:27, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 18:37:40 UTC, JDemler wrote:
Triggered by the original forum thread I wrote a DIP to further
explain the idea of the writing files at compile time feature and its
implications.
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP81
Please discuss!
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.
pragma(msg, your_mixin);
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 agree with Ola, something more restricted then filesystem is required.
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Dmitry Olshansky
