On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 23:55:42 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 5 October 2015 at 03:44, Jan Johansson via Digitalmars-d
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 02:25:21 UTC, Yaser wrote:
Are there any critical frameworks or libraries that are
holding you back in fully investing in D? Obviously I think D
is an awesome language, but some frameworks/libraries hold me
back, wish I could do everything in D.
I'd wish for attributes to be runtime available, not only
compiler directives. It could then be used for a number of
interesting use cases, as marshaling from and to different
formats rather than through API. The attributes could then be
supported by libraries.
Anything compile time can be made available at runtime if your
system calls for it.
Sure it can, but I want a dynamic behavior, not a static
behavior. Attributes are compiler directives. They are not
available at runtime according to the specification of D
language. Now take the example at:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/uda.html, and separate the code into
one library that defines the attributes and "printAsXML", keep
the consumer of the attributes (main function) and get the same
slick functionality. It can't be done, because UDA is not runtime
available.
