Compile time strings auto concatenation!?
Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Nov 21 06:33:16 PST 2015
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 20:39:58 UTC, Ilya wrote:
> Can DMD frontend optimize
> string concatenation
> ```
> enum Double(S) = S ~ S;
>
> assert(condition, "Text " ~ Double!"+" ~ ___FUNCTION__);
> ```
>
> to
>
> ```
> assert(condition, "Text ++_function_name_");
>
> ```
> ?
At least for string (and array?) literals, it's now guaranteed to
happen at compile time. It was changed in order to get rid of the
error-prone "concatenation by juxtaposition" feature inherited
from C. I'm not sure it also applies to non-literals, though.
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