Compiling Templates

Kagamin spam at here.lot
Thu Jul 2 07:07:19 PDT 2009


bearophile Wrote:

> Kagamin:
> 
> > bearophile Wrote:
> > 
> > > Most of the things you can do with templates can be done with functions (even not pure ones!) run at compile-time that are also allowed to use (and receive/return) a type of compile-time variables of type "type" :-) I think this may lead to a language that's cleaner than C++/D-style templates.
> 
> > lisp?
> 
> My experience of Lisp is quite limited. How can you do that with lisp? I think we are talking about different things.

Mine is zero :) From what I heard types in lisp are like any other symbols, no syntactic difference. You should only check you invoke right functions on them.


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