Confusion/trying to understand CTFE keywords
jmh530
john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 14:57:26 UTC 2018
On Friday, 8 June 2018 at 05:10:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> All this talk of CTFE and "compile-time", along with the
> confusion that arises from conflating everything done by the
> compiler into the blanket term "compile-time" makes me want to
> scream:
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/User:Quickfur/Compile-time_vs._compile-time
>
> </shameless self-plug>
>
> ;-)
>
> tl;dr: D's "compile-time" features consist of (at least) two
> distinct phases of code transformation: template expansion and
> CTFE, and having a proper understanding of exactly what they
> are and what the distinction between them is, will go a long
> way in clearing up a lot of the confusion commonly experienced
> by newcomers to D in regard to D's so-called "compile-time"
> features.
>
>
> --T
May I suggest that you add a flow chart that gives a very high
level understanding of the compiler steps. Like how Rust's
introduction to MIR has:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html
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