DMD 1.005 release

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Wed Feb 7 23:08:29 PST 2007


Yauheni Akhotnikau wrote:
> I'm use Ruby a lot and much metaprogramming things done via creating 
> strings with Ruby code and evaluating it by various 'eval' methods. It 
> is very simple method -- easy in writting, debugging and testing. And 
> there isn't two different Ruby -- only one language.

That's possible because Ruby is interpreted - its compilation 
environment is also the execution environment.

But D is a statically compiled language, so there's a distinction 
between a compile time variable, and a runtime variable.



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