Constructing a variadic template parameter with source in two files

[Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 22 December 2016 at 07:33:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 12/21/2016 07:59 PM, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
>
> > construct the 'opts' parameter from
> > definitions stored in two or more files. The reason for doing
> this is to
> > create a customization mechanism where-by there are a number
> of default
> > capabilities built-in to the main code base, but someone can
> customize
> > their copy of the code, putting definitions in a separate
> file, and have
> > it added in at compile time, including modifying command line
> arguments.
>
> I'm not sure this is any better than your mixin solution but 
> getopt can be called multiple times on the same arguments. So, 
> for example common code can parse them for its arguments and 
> special code can parse them for its arguments. [...]
>
Yes, that might work, thanks. I'll need to work on the code 
structure a bit (there are a couple other nuances to account 
for), but might be able to make it work. The mixin approach feels 
a bit brittle.

--Jon