On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 00:54:37 UTC, JDemler wrote:
I am not sure if I understand your idea correctly:
The compiler would in case of an export(name, content) write
the content both to a internal database and the filesystem and
then only use the internal one?
Or could the content of the internal database be copied to the
file system at the end of the compilation process? Or is only
the output bundle written to the file system?
The filesystem is a compiler issue and not a language issue, so
sure, the compiler could do whatever it wants, flush everything
to disk or into a SQL database or…
Keep in mind that someone might want to compile on a diskless
computer from an in-memory zip-file or similar.
I think the important file generation that are relevant to the
language would be for the output bundle, so that you e.g. can
have a config file in D and generate platform specific files
(.ini, .xml etc).
