On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 01:21:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/5/2017 1:50 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Who says you can't use a preprocessor with D code? ;-)
There are some issues with it. The C preprocessor is defined to
work on "preprocessor tokens", which are not quite the same
thing as text.
I did this kind of things in the '90s with 2 very different
languages AutoLISP and Foxbase. Worked really well and allowed to
avoid a lot of code duplication. These 2 languages were very
deficient when speaking about modularity and global symbols of a
project. There were really only 2 or 3 small things that couldn't
be used with the macros. Syntactically D is much, much closer to
C than Lisp or dBase language.
