Runtime metaprogramming in D

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Apr 28 19:20:23 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 01:38:17 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to write self-modifying code in D, who will 
> perform at runtime?

Not easily. Just the obvious approach to invoke the compiler and 
run/load the created executable / shared library.

> Or is it a characteristic of languages that compile to bytecode?

I would say that it is a characteristic of languages which 
provide a compiler-as-a-library.


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