Re: Thoughts on Herb Sutter's Metaclasses?

2018-04-10 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 09:32:49 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: Wow, that thread had very little discussion, and a huge amount of bickering over whether someone actually understood what someone else might have said. My take-away was that it can be done in D, but would be simpler with AST

Re: Thoughts on Herb Sutter's Metaclasses?

2018-04-10 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 09:32:49 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 05:55:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 01:21:07 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: [...] See previous forum thread on the topic, with Walter chiming in a bit too:

Re: Thoughts on Herb Sutter's Metaclasses?

2018-04-10 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 05:55:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 01:21:07 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: [...] See previous forum thread on the topic, with Walter chiming in a bit too: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/kglnxqbcugerhynng...@forum.dlang.org Wow, that thread had

Re: Thoughts on Herb Sutter's Metaclasses?

2018-04-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 01:21:07 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: One more note: It seems like this would be heaven for trying out new language features without having to "manually" add them into the compiler first. By hijacking the syntax to AST stage, we can add new constructs with

Re: Thoughts on Herb Sutter's Metaclasses?

2018-04-09 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d
One more note: It seems like this would be heaven for trying out new language features without having to "manually" add them into the compiler first. By hijacking the syntax to AST stage, we can add new constructs with real-functioning code, and have others evaluate themselves and unit test