On 2012-07-21 23:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I discussed the idea below a long time (years) ago. Most
likely it's also been discussed in this newsgroup a couple of times.
Given the state of the compiler back then, back then it seemed like a
super cool idea that's entirely realizable, it would just take time for
the compiler to become as capable as needed. Nowadays we're in shape to
tackle it.
Here "it" is.
Back when runtime reflection was being discussed, my response was "let's
focus on compile-time reflection, and then we can do run-time reflection
on demand as a library". Though this might sound sensible, I initially
didn't have a design. Now here's what we can do.
I've been waiting for this :)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
