Is this possible in D?

Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 19 09:23:46 PST 2015


On 2/20/2015 1:06 AM, tcak wrote:

>> @OP: By using a token string (q{}) for funcBody rather than a WYSIWYG
>> string (r"" or ``), you can still get syntax highlighting in your editor.
>
> Based on your example, bye bye readibility. It is like writing rocket
> taking off procedures.
>
> People are complaining about different parts of D languages some
> structures (there are good ones, there are bad ones), but unfortunately,
> bad ones are continuously ignored in the name of trying to reach the
> language a stability.

I agree that string mixins can kill readability. I encountered that when 
I used them to support both D1 and D2 in Derelict 2 years ago. But I 
think that when they are kept small and local as in cases like this, 
they aren't bad at all.


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