On Monday, 30 January 2012 at 13:23:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
Is D capable of accessing the filesystem at compile time, for
instance, to
load and parse an XML DOM, or some other structural metadata,
which may be
used to generate the associative struct and its members?
I can think of many other uses for the technology too. It seems
extremely
powerful, and I'm sure it's been discussed :)
As interesting as that would be, I wouldn't recommend it.
Just generate a .d file from the XML before compiling. It will be
faster, and more flexible than trying to hit everything with the
D hammer.
