How far can CTFE go?

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/03/2012 04:26 AM, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> I don't think that should be grounds to get rid of CTFE,
>> though.
>
> In contrast to your remark, I do not see the benefits of reducing two
> compiling phases to one. For me CTFE ist nothing else than running the
> executables of a first compilation in order to get some values needed
> for a second compilation.
>
> -manfred
>

- needed for a third compilation, needed for a fourth compilation, 
needed for a fifth compilation ...

- better syntax, can do complex things without obfuscating the code

- no need to serialize and feed back the data into the compiler

- more convenient!

- faster

- very cool


You probably haven't made extensive use of the feature. For me it is the 
main reason to choose D for development.