DMD 1.014 release

[Pragma]

BCS wrote:
> Pragma wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Sports associative array literals, and struct literals. This enables 
>>> compile time function execution to work with symbol tables (AA's) and 
>>> user defined types.
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>>
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.014.zip
>>
>>
>> Fantastic!  Thanks Walter!
>>
>> ::places ear to ground::
>>
>> Yep. It's a stampede alright... code generators.  Lots of 'em.
>>
> 
> This is what I'm waiting for:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/dmd -c -o- > your_code.o
> 
> import comp.time.comp;
> 
> pragma(msg, D2ELF!(import("your_code.d"));

Apart from sheer curiosity, or for bragging rights, why would you want to completely re-implement the compiler backend 
as compile-time code?

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