On 03/23/2018 02:09 PM, Manu wrote:
If I have to continue to generate
tables offline and paste big tables of data in the source code (and
then re-generate them manually when I change something); then
situation is identical to C++, therefore, stick with C++.\
WAT?
When in the world would anyone ever need to do any of that? And I mean
*regardless* of language? What kind of build system are you even using,
punch cards and sneakernet?
Just run your custom generator tool from your buildscript (it's a
trivial one-liner), and have it generate a full-fledged .d file ready
for import (or a data file which is then string-imported by your main
program).
It's quick and trivial, I've been doing it for a project written in Haxe
(and just converted it to C# the other day as part of a big Flash ->
Unity3D conversion) and it works quick-and-easy even there (of course,
the Haxe/C#-generating tool is written in D, the tool was just easier to
write that way).
DMD itself used to do that too when it was still C-based. Nobody ever
needed to manually re-regenerate it (it was automatically invoked when
necessary by the makefile), and *certainly* nobody ever needed to go
copy-pasting any generated data.
